The winning entry in the prints category is a series of stories on Iyabo Obasanjo, whose name keeps coming up like the proverbial bad coin in corruption cases. The series of stories were written by Mr Muraina Olufunso of ThisDay newspapers. The prize for the photo journalism category went to an entry from Mr Ademola AKinlabi of Tell. In the radio broadcast category, the prize went to Mr Solomon Adebayo reporter with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Abuja, who did a story on the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency and hawkers in Abuja. The series of reports he did showed depressing levels of corruption in the Environmental Protection Agency, even up to the point that some workers in the agency kept private, illegal detention centres to hold hawkers who refuse to bribe them. The report led to the intervention of the police force, the release of the detainees and the arrest of the officials. It was even more impressive that the entry was from the state-owned radio network.
The winning TV entry, which was also the overall winning entry, is from Mr Deji Badmus of Channels Television. The report was on the Police Equipment Fund. It showed different layers of corruption, layers too nuanced to write about in this short space. Suffice it to say that the report was really impressive, in the coverage of the issue, and in the presentation of the efforts of the reporter and results of the investigation.
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