Eyewitness gathered that the journalists who were moving in a nine-car convoy were attacked around Aso Drive junction, close to the Three Arm Zone as the Vice President made his way back to the Presidential Villa after Friday muslim jumat prayers at the National Mosque.
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Buba. K, who appeared to be the monster ordered the arrest of one of the journalists, Mr.Emman Ovuakporie who is a Senior Correspondent with Vanguard Newspaper over allegations that he beat a security mounted by the VP’s security details.
Explanations by the Vanguard journalist that one of the mobile policeman attached to the VP’s security convoy permitted him to drive through the cordoned area fell on deaf ears as Monster Buba insisted on arresting the journalist and impounding his vehicle. This led to a scene as other journalists gathered to protest the arrest.
Explanations that the journalists were on an official assignment to cover an event organized by Speaker Tambuwal further enraged the VP’s security details who thereafter moved to forcefully disperse the protesting journalists. The situation got tensed when a mobile policeman, Corporal Ayubu Ayefu threatened to shoot a cameraman with the Africa Independent Television (AIT) Femi Akinpelu. Ovuakporie and Akinpelu are both attached to the House of Representatives Press Corps.
Corporal Ayubu Ayefu pointed his cocked AK 47 rifle at the AIT cameraman as he attempted to film the incident. “Look at my name tag, nothing will happen. If you don’t leave this place immediately with your camera and your vehicle, I will shoot you. Now move!”, the power-drunk corporal ordered.
The tension was however doused with the intervention of a senior official of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) who witnessed the scene and alighted from his vehicle to ask Monster DSP Buba to release the detained journalists.
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