Nigerian Policemen Brutalise Premium Times Reporter During #EndBadGovernance Protest In Abuja
Talking to SaharaReporters, Mohammed said, he used to be filming the chaotic scene when the police began trudge-gassing protesters, who replied by hurling inspire the canisters.
Some cops beget attacked and injured Yakubu Mohammed, a PREMIUM TIMES reporter, in some unspecified time in the future of the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria jabber in Abuja on Thursday.
The officers struck Mohammed with the butts of their weapons and batons, causing him a head damage.
Talking to SaharaReporters, Mohammed said, he used to be filming the chaotic scene when the police began trudge-gassing protesters, who replied by hurling inspire the canisters.
“I was filming the violent moment when the police had been trudge-gassing the protesters and the latter had been also hurling inspire the canisters,” he narrated.
“Despite explaining that I’m a pressman, they brutalised me, hit me with gun butts on my head and shoulder till they seized my phone,” he said.
He used to be then compelled into a police van with four other detained folks. “I was then hurled into a police van the assign I met four other arrested folks,” Mohammed added.
A couple of minutes later, he used to be launched with an intervention of an unidentified fellow journalist, Mohammed said.
