(MRA/IFEX) – On 21 March 2006, Dare Fasube, a photojournalist with the “Vanguard” newspaper assigned to cover the national housing and population census exercise at the Ibadan North East Local Government Area in Oyo State in southwest Nigeria, was attacked by Mr. Gbenga Adewusi, the chairman of the local government. Fasube was taking photographs of […]
(MRA/IFEX) – On 21 March 2006, Dare Fasube, a photojournalist with the “Vanguard” newspaper assigned to cover the national housing and population census exercise at the Ibadan North East Local Government Area in Oyo State in southwest Nigeria, was attacked by Mr. Gbenga Adewusi, the chairman of the local government.
Fasube was taking photographs of the long queue of census enumerators who were struggling to collect their pay at 11:00 a.m. (local time), a time when the enumeration exercise ought to have been in progress. On sighting him taking pictures, Adewusi attacked the photojournalist, punching him several times. One of the policemen accompanying Adewusi also beat the journalist. They inflicted severe injuries on Fasube and damaged his camera.
