The security aides attached to Minister of State for the FCT (Abuja) today manhandled a Guardian newspaper journalist for trying to take pictures of the minister's car. Trouble started when the minister's convoy of Land cruiser jeeps and security pick-ups got trapped in the dirt and journalists attached to the minister's convoy tried to take pictures of failed attempts by the minister's aides and residents of the area to pull the vehicles clear of the sludge yielded no results.
According to Premium Times reports, the police aide to Ms. Akinjide accosted the Guardian reporter, seized his phone as the minister’s vehicle, now pulled off, sped past. After questioning Mr. Daka on why he made the tapes, the aide and the FCT Coordinator of MDG programs and Director of Economic Planning, Ari Isah Mohammed, deleted the files.
Agents of the State Security Service soon joined the fray shoving and attempting to punch the reporter who asked that his phone he returned. The officials shrugged off explanations from other journalists on why the recordings were necessary.
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