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Local Government Chairman, Police Orderly Assault
Photojournalist
On 21 March 2006, Dare Fasube, a photojournalist with the "Vanguard"
newspaper assigned to cover the national housing and population census
exercise at the Ibadan North East Local Government Area in Oyo State in
south west Nigeria, was attacked by Mr. Gbenga Adewusi, the Chairman of
the Local Government.
Fasube was taking shots of the long queue of census enumerators who were
fighting to collect their allowances at 11am at a time when the
enumeration exercise ought to have been in progress. On sighting him
taking pictures, Adewusi attacked the photojournalist, punching him
several times. One of the policemen attached to the local government
chairman joined his boss in battering the journalist. They inflicted
severe injuries on him and damaged his camera.
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