Nigeria: Journalists Assaulted By Policemen While Covering Protest

press release

On 7 April 2006, Attah Ikharo and Jerry Adamu, two journalists with a privately owned television station, Degue Broadcast Network (DBN), were beaten by policemen, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the Garki Police Station in Abuja, Femi Ogedengbe.

The incident took place while Ikharo and Adamu were covering protests by temporary staff hired by the National Population Commission in Abuja. The workers were protesting the fact that they had not been paid for their work as enumerators in the national housing and population census exercise held in Nigeria in March 2006.

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