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Journalist Beaten
Unconscious by Policemen
On May 1, 2007, Dare Folorunso a
journalists with the state-owned Ondo State Radiovision Corporation (OSRC)
was beaten by several policemen, including a deputy commissioner in
Akure, in the southwestern state of Ondo, at a May Day rally until he
fell unconscious.
Folorunso’s ordeal began when, at the
entrance to the Akure stadium where the May Day rally held, he was
taking photographs of events, an action to which a policeman objected.
In spite of his explanation that he is a journalist, the policeman went
on to assault him. When Folorunso tried to defended himself, other
policemen rallied round their colleague and began beating the
journalist.
Reports have it that assistant
commissioner of police, Joshua Mumbo, participated in the beating and
hit Folorunso several times on the head with a baton.
Other journalists who tried to
intervene on behalf of Folorunso were also beaten up.
The police finally
stopped the beating when Folorunso, bleeding heavily, lost
consciousness. But he was not taken to hospital until much later, after
Michael Bodunde, another assistant commissioner of police, and Alaba
Isijola, an Ondo state official, intervened.
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