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Police assault, Vanguard journalist from monitoring result collation

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Police officers attached to Ughelli Police 'A' Division, Delta State,
 
Sunday, assaulted and stopped journalists present at the Ughelli
 
office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from
 
monitoring the collation of result of Saturday's Presidential and
 
National Assembly elections.
 
Lamenting his ordeal after spending close to one hour behind the
 
counter, Vanguard's Perez Brisibe, said that when he got to the INEC
 
collation centre at 6:15a.m., an officer attached to the Counter
 
Terrorism Unit, CTU barked at him, asking who he was, adding that
 
after showing the officer his INEC media accreditation card, the
 
officer said: "Is that why you are walking freely into the premises?
 
In short leave this place now."
 
According to Perez, while trying to explain to the officer the need to
 
allow him access the collation centre, two other officers accosted him
 
from behind saying, "Who gave you the guts to talk back to an officer?
 
Obey the order and get out of this premises."
 
This he said was followed by slaps and punches from other officers
 
including a female CTU officer, who freely used a horse wipe on him.
 
He said: "In obeying their order, I was walking out and trying to
 
inform my colleagues of what had transpired when two of them pounced
 
on me again saying, 'You are making calls abi? In short, we are
 
locking you up'.
 
"At that point, they dragged me across the main road like a common
 
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Police assault, Vanguard journalist from monitoring result collation

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