The International Press Centre (IPC) says 250 journalists were “harrassed” during coverage of the 2019 general election. Lanre Arogundade, executive director of the IPC, said this on Tuesday at a
Author:The International Press Centre says 250 journalists were “harrassed” during coverage of the 2019 general election.
Arogundade said the essence of the event was for journalists to evaluate how well they are doing in covering the ongoing electoral process and elections. “Though no journalist was killed on election day in 2019, 250 were molested across the country including some of them who were accredited, particularly by overzealous law enforcement agencies.“We’re appealing to the law enforcement and security agencies, what happened in 2019 should not repeat itself. If a journalist is accredited, they should not be harassed in any way.
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