By Isaac Ukpoju
Personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) attached to the Nasarawa State Pensions Bureau in Lafia have attacked journalists for taking pictures of a document pasted on the board’s notice board.
The brutalised journalists are Mr Rabiu Omaku of Universal Reporters, an online medium; and Mr. Gambo Ahmed of Peoples Daily.
The reporters had gone to the bureau to take photographs of the list of de-listed pensioners pasted on the notice board on Friday, when they were attacked.
Omaku told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), that he went to the bureau after receiving information that some pensioners have been de-listed for allegedly dragging the state government to court over their entitlements.
“When I arrived in the office, I went to the notice board to snap the names pasted on it, but the bureau’s Information Officer, Mr Ibrahim Dawaya, directed personnel of the NSCDC to seize my phone.
“I was surprised and refused to…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
