NSCDC begins probe of officers for allegedly brutalising journalist
The State Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Anambra State Command, Edwin Osuala, has ordered a probe into the alleged assault on an online journalist, Izunna Okafor, by men of the state command.
This was disclosed in a press statement issued on Sunday by the Public Relations Officer of the NSCDC, Okadigbo Edwin, saying the probe was to bring anyone found complicit to book.
Okafor was reportedly assaulted by some civil defence corps when he went to retrieve his mobile phone after he misplaced it in a vehicle that conveyed him and members of the NSCDC officials to a function at Nnewi.
He said, “I was in the same bus with the civil defence officials from Awka to the venue of the Anambra South Rally of the Soludo Ambassadors, which was held at Nnewi on Saturday, while the same bus (provided by the organisers of the event) also conveyed us back to Awka.
The officials had earlier complained of hunger and frustration on their way back from the rally, but trouble started when I wanted to alight at the UNIZIK junction, but the driver ignored me on the instruction of the civil defence officers, who insisted that everybody must remain in the bus and follow them to the very last bus stop where they themselves would alight.
