Uja Emmanuel, le correspondant du \u00ab\u00a0The Sun\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 Makurdi, la capitale de l\u2019Etat de Benue au Centre Nord du Nigeria, a \u00e9t\u00e9 fut brutalis\u00e9 par une \u00e9quipe conjointe de policiers et de hooligans politiques qui auraient agi sur les ordres d\u2019un Commissaire Assistant de Police (ACP), H. C. Ugwu.<\/p>\n
La cam\u00e9ra et le magn\u00e9tophone du journaliste, tous deux d\u2019une valeur d\u2019environ N60,000 (460 dollars US), furent d\u00e9truits.<\/p>\n
Emmanuel, ainsi que d\u2019autres journalistes, s\u2019\u00e9tait rendu dans les locaux de la Police \u00e0 Makurdi pour s\u2019enqu\u00e9rir du sort de Johnson Babajid\u00e9, un journaliste du \u00ab\u00a0Nigerian Tribune<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb enlev\u00e9 par des hooligans arm\u00e9s, \u00e0 la solde du People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), le parti au pouvoir.<\/p>\n Emmanuel a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 dans un interview t\u00e9l\u00e9phonique, qu\u2019au Poste de Police, il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 confront\u00e9 \u00e0 Ugwu\u00a0 qui l\u2019accusait de r\u00e9diger des articles sur la crise de Kwande (Une assembl\u00e9e locale de l\u2019Etat de Benue) et d\u2019avoir affirm\u00e9 que le responsable de la police \u00e9tait incapable de ma\u00eetriser la crise. Celui-ci a saisi sa cam\u00e9ra et son magn\u00e9tophone, qu\u2019il a \u00e9cras\u00e9s au sol et ordonn\u00e9 \u00e0 ses hommes et aux voyous de s\u2019occuper du journaliste.<\/p>\n Avant cette rencontre, Emmanuel recevait des appels t\u00e9l\u00e9phoniques le sommant d\u2019arr\u00eater d\u2019\u00e9crire sur la crise du Kwande.<\/p>\n Emmanuel a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 \u00e9galement que le responsable de la police avait auparavant dit aux journalistes que la police ne pouvait arr\u00eater les activit\u00e9s de la milice parce cette derni\u00e8re utilisait des armes plus sophistiqu\u00e9es.<\/p>\n Ugwu s\u2019\u00e9tait vant\u00e9\u00a0 : \u00ab\u00a0Va demander au Comit\u00e9 du S\u00e9nat\u00a0 sur la crise de Kwande d\u2019enqu\u00eater sur moi aussi\u00a0\u00bb, avait-il dit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uja Emmanuel, le correspondant du \u00ab\u00a0The Sun\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 Makurdi, la capitale de l\u2019Etat de Benue au Centre Nord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"country":[250],"staff-position":[],"opportunity-category":[],"ppma_author":[513],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-expression-violations-fr","country-nigeria-fr"],"authors":[{"term_id":513,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"vivian","display_name":"Vivian Affoah","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddf6c5c2ef2f35c978196ce314f9b81dba2ec548b12806a3acbe02e2360d7e63?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"staff-position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-position?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"opportunity-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opportunity-category?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}