‘LASTED SEVERAL MINUTES’ HOODLUMS ATTACK NEWSMEN, STABS CHANNELS CAMERAMAN, ARISE CREW MISSING IN APAPA

Hoodlums are said to have attacked and stabbed Ismail Sanusi, a cameraman for Channels, while he was documenting the current state of traffic on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway and in the areas surrounding the Apapa and Tin Can ports in Lagos State.

Aside from him, Arise Television crew members were said to be missing after hoodlums attacked them to prevent the exercises on Apapa gridlocks. They were also within the axis to record attempts being made to alleviate movements around the ports and why it has not generated any results.

During the incident, which lasted several minutes within the axis, the hoodlums also vandalized a Channels television car.

As gathered, the hoodlums that attacked the journalists on Monday were members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), and Maritime workers, as well as, those engaged by the Apapa Local Government to extort motorists on the road.

Confirming attacks on the journalists during coverage of the gridlock around Apapa, the National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) Taskforce chairman, Hassan Adekoya, disclosed that the channel’s cameraman has been rushed to the Apapa General Hospital where he was began to receive treatment

Adekoya noted that the Arise crew has not been seen several minutes after the attacks and that all efforts to know their whereabouts had continued to prove abortive as calls made to their phones had been unsuccessful.