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Richard Oludare, a
journalist with The Guardian
newspaper was Tuesday brutally attacked and beaten to stupor by operatives of
the Department of State Services (DSS).
Oludare who had come to
carry out his legitimate duty of covering the protest march by the #FreeSowore
campaigners at the head office of the DSS was attacked as the DSS moved to
violently break up the protest and disperse the agitators.
The journalist who may
have insisted on being allowed to do his job was set upon by several operatives
of the DSS and was beaten to pulps; and left all battered and bloodied by men
who should have been protecting him and defending his right to freely discharge
his legitimate duty as a journalist.
Several others were
injured with vehicles, recorders and cameras destroyed as the DSS unleashed
illegitimate force on the peaceful protesters.
Deploying desperate measures,
the DSS which is also famed as Nigeria’s secret police had opened fire on some
journalists and protesters alike who were on ground at the peaceful protest at
its headquarters in Asokoro, Abuja to press home the demand for the release of
Mr. Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters.
Mr. Sowore has been held
by the DSS for more than three months, in spite of the order of court granting
him bail.
Sowore’s counsel, Femi Falana, had also accused
the DSS of plotting to file additional charges against Mr Sowore in order to
justify the continued detention of Sowore in their custody, which he declared
as effectively illegal since Wednesday when Sowore met all bail conditions.
Ironically, the DSS claimed on Friday that
it was holding Sowore because no one had come to pick him up. Polska Bitradex
