Nigeria Security Agents Assault Two Sports Journalists

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By Abdulgafar Oladimeji

Nigerian security men brutally assaulted two  newspaper reporters during the welcome reception held in honour of the Super eagles of Nigeria at  the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on Tuesday  afternoon in Abuja.

The reporters, (names withheld) who were  at the airport to cover the heroic return of the Super Eagles of Nigeria were  subjected  to physical assault by men of the Nigeria Police Force and those of the Nigeria Air Force .

Checks revealed  that  the reporters approached  the airport, when  a sergeant (names with held) attached to  the Nigeria Air force denied them access into the interior part of the airport, from where they could access news. One of  the senior reporters,  on disclosing his identity as a reporter was verbally assaulted by the security men.

A  Sergeant of the Nigeria Air Force  made frantic efforts to confiscate the identity card with the pledge to slice it into shreds.

The other reporter who made attempt to clarify their status as journalists , came under physical assault , on the orders of Nigeria police a Supol (names withheld). The Nigeria police Supol, and the  Nigeria Air Force sergeant  instructed their junior officers to assault the reporters. They  paid deaf ears to pleas from onlookers, and rebuffed entreaties   to accord the reporters due recognition as journalists.

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