Nigeria: Assault On Leadership Photojournalist - Fashola Orders Prosecution of Culprits

12 August 2012

As part of efforts to ensure that those that manhandled LEADERSHIP photo Journalist Mr. Benedict Uwalaka are brought to book, the Lagos state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has directed the salaried lawyers working in the Lagos Office of Public Defender (OPD) to take up the case in the court against the culprits.

LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered that the governor who was horrified by the attack on the photo who was Journalist while covering the release of corpses of those that lost their lives in the ill-fated Dana air crash at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH ) directed the state's Attorney General Mr. Ade Ipaye to ensure that justice is done.

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