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Police Go after Newspaper Vendors over Reports on IPOB

  • Date of Occurrence
    June 1, 2021
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    Abia, Nigeria
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Daily Trust gathered since the weekend, policemen from the Aba Area Command have been carrying out arrest of newspaper vendors and readers over reports on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Residents said there was tension at Ama-Ogbonna Junction in the commercial city when police raided the place on Sunday.

An eyewitness said residents scampered for safety, as police officers shot sporadically while trying to arrest a newspaper vendor and readers.

The vendors were accused of distributing newspapers which had stories on the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Dr. Elendu Ukoh, one of the eyewitness, appealed to the state government and Igbo leaders to call the police authorities rein in on their men so as not to create crisis in the city.

“The kind of people we put into police these days make me wonder if we really want anything good out of this country called Nigeria. How can someone be chasing newspaper vendors around in Aba, in this modern world?

“If you stop people from reading hard copies of newspapers, will you also stop them from reading the same stories on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, among others? What manner of primitive policing is this?

“They caused panic on Sunday by their shooting and noisemaking. The whole neighbourhood thought that they were chasing kidnappers. It was later that we discovered that police came to arrest a vendor and readers, who gathered in his newspaper stand. How can police be fighting newspaper vendors? What manner of problem can paper cause that Social Media cannot cause 20 times over. This people are not normal,” he said.

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  • Date of Occurrence
    2021-06-01
  • State/Country
    Abia
  • Source
    https://dailytrust.com/police-go-after-newspaper-vendors-over-reports-on-ipob
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