Police Demand More Identification-Checks From Journalists Covering Protests

Police Demand More Identification-Checks From Journalists Covering Protests

The Commissioner of Police in Abuja, Ben Igweh, has requested journalists who intend to cover the ongoing nationwide protest to dress in their organisations’ jackets.

He also asked the journalists to come along with valid means of identification.

The spokesperson for the command, Josephine Adeh, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

“The Commissioner of Police FCT Command directed me to inform all pressmen who intend to go out and cover the ongoing National protests to adequately dress in the attire of their respective media organisations and also come along with a valid means of identification,” she said.

This comes a day after some personnel of the Nigerian Police Force and the State Security Service (SSS) allegedly shot at journalists covering the protest at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja.

Meanwhile, the Department of State Services (DSS), has arrested one of the leaders of the ongoing #Endbadgovernance protests in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Micheal Lenin.

According to information obtained by Naija News, Lenin was arrested around 2 am on Monday at his residence in the Apo area of the nation’s capital city by DSS operatives.

Confirming the development, the Director of Mobilisation, Take It Back Movement, Damilare Adenola, told Punch that Lenin’s house was raided by the DSS.

He alleged that the DSS also assaulted him during his arrest.