Some operatives of the Bauchi State Command attacked a journalist, Yusuf Damina, while covering a protest staged by students
Some operatives of the Bauchi State Command attacked a journalist, Yusuf Damina while covering a protest staged by students of Bauchi State College of Agriculture last Thursday.
The students of the college were protesting the ceding of a portion of the school land to an individual who had won a case in court against the school. The violence reportedly began when there was an attempt to demarcate the land. “Based on this barbaric act of the police, the union has directed its members to suspend with immediate effect, coverage of all activities of the police in the state until the perpetrators of the act are fished out and prosecuted in addition to the proper payment of compensation and settlement of medical bills of the victim.
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