Army Officer allegedly brutalised and assaulted Journalist Mr. Ikechukwu Ibe Daily Trust newspapers

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), FCT Council, has censured the strike on a photograph columnist with Daily Trust daily papers, Mr. Ikechukwu Ibe by an Army Captain.

Ibe was doing a task on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at Jabi range of Abuja when he was assaulted.

The Army Officer purportedly brutalized and attacked Journalist Ibe, abandoning him with various slashes and swollen eyes.

The military officer likewise professedly seized his camera, expelled and pulverized the memory card since he took a few photos of a vehicle that kept running into an eatery in Jabi.

In a press explanation marked by the Secretary of NUJ, FCT Council, Rafat Salami, the NUJ, in addition to other things, requested that the officers engaged with the "terrible episode" be endorsed.

"The NUJ most definitely, is demoralized over the appalling occurrence. As opposed to regard columnists as accomplices in country building, security specialists have reliably regarded writers as foes who must be pulverized.

"Additional disheartening is the way that the strike occurred similarly as Nigeria is getting ready to honor the 'Worldwide Day to End Impunity For Crimes Against Journalists' on November 2.

"This is unsatisfactory in an edified and just country where the Rule of Law must be permitted to flourish. It is a reasonable instance of gross infringement of the privileges of the writer", the announcement peruses to some extent.

Portraying his difficulty, Mr Ibe stated, when he arrived at around 3:00pm, he acquainted himself with the security men on ground and revealed to them he might want to take a few pictures.

He stated, when he began taking the photos, the Army Captain, who wore a cover without an unofficial ID and part of the Joint Ministerial Taskforce, which included men of the Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), jumped on him and began thumping him without incitement.

"They gathered my camera, broke it and took my memory card which contained the photographs that I had taken. They likewise tore my garments previously packaging me into a Black Maria where I met six different people.

"I later put a call crosswise over to my photograph proofreader and the Daily Trust Editor, who conveyed a couple of pants to me at the Life Camp Police station where I was taken to.

"My editors later secured my discharge and my crushed camera was given spirit to me without the memory card. In any case, my Identity card and N3,700 trade out my pocket were not returned," he said.

As a method for looking for equity for the brutalized Journalist, the NUJ thusly, approached government, "to bring the culprits of this obnoxious follow up on this honest resident, who was just doing his business to book".

The NUJ likewise requested quick substitution of Mr. Ibe's camera and satisfactorily remunerate him for the brutalization distributed on him.

The umbrella assemblage of Journalists is likewise requesting "an open expression of remorse from the most astounding expert, while setting up hardware to avert future rates".