According to eye witness the journalists were in Ikeja when they noticed that many passengers were hanging on the train and they took photographs from a pedestrian bridge nearby.
While he was taking pictures thugs attacked him according to the victim Mr Ogundele “They beat me. They hit me in the head until I ran to the police station at the Ikeja Local Government. I had given my camera to someone else and since they did not see me with the camera, they started beating me,”. He said they went to report the matter at the State Traffic Division but the policemen said they were only in charge of traffic and not criminal activities taking place in the area. “We want the government to create more awareness about our job,” Ogunleye said.
“We are not enemies of the society. We also want fellow journalists to start writing about us again in opinion articles and editorial so that the society can understand what our role is.”
If we recall last week a photo journalist Mr Benedict Uwalaka was brutalised by mortuary attendants at Lagos State Teaching Hospital Ikeja while Doing his job. Due to these unprovoked attacks the State Council of the NUJ have decided to stage a non violent protest because according to them "Journalists are the societys friends and not enemies and are on the side of the people to expose the ills in the society"
Source PM NEWS
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