TELL
Iseribhor Okhueleigbe, an Assistant editor with TELL magazine, was on Saturday attacked by suspected hoodlums in Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State.
The TELL journalist said he was attacked at Ikwerre LG Ward 7 by some irate youths who seized his laptop, recorders and other items.
He said the irate youth also damaged the Vento Passat vehicle in which he was moving around to monitor the election. The driver of the vehicle who he simply identified as Ezekiel, was said to have also been badly beaten by the irate youths.
Okhueleigbe said he inadvertently ran into an ongoing crisis in the community. He said prior to the time he got there, the community youth had gone on rampage protesting the alleged diversion of one of the four vehicles that was supposed to have brought election materials to the community.
The TELL journalist said by the time he entered the community he must have been mistaken for an INEC official by the community youths who then descended on the vehicle in which he was travelling, beating the driver and smashing the car windows.
As at the time of filing this report, he said, he and his team had been taken to the resident of one Bestman Amadi, former Ikwerre Local Government chairman who is said to be making efforts to help them recover their seized items.
Okhueleigbe said there are also reports that fighting was ongoing in Obiakpor local government area where some hoodlums were said to have fire gunshots over night.
The TELL journalist said he was attacked at Ikwerre LG Ward 7 by some irate youths who seized his laptop, recorders and other items.
He said the irate youth also damaged the Vento Passat vehicle in which he was moving around to monitor the election. The driver of the vehicle who he simply identified as Ezekiel, was said to have also been badly beaten by the irate youths.
Okhueleigbe said he inadvertently ran into an ongoing crisis in the community. He said prior to the time he got there, the community youth had gone on rampage protesting the alleged diversion of one of the four vehicles that was supposed to have brought election materials to the community.
The TELL journalist said by the time he entered the community he must have been mistaken for an INEC official by the community youths who then descended on the vehicle in which he was travelling, beating the driver and smashing the car windows.
As at the time of filing this report, he said, he and his team had been taken to the resident of one Bestman Amadi, former Ikwerre Local Government chairman who is said to be making efforts to help them recover their seized items.
Okhueleigbe said there are also reports that fighting was ongoing in Obiakpor local government area where some hoodlums were said to have fire gunshots over night.
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