The Osun
State chapter of the Correspondent Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists
has rejected the monetary compensation offered to the correspondent of The
Point, Mr. Timothy Agbor, whose mobile phone was destroyed after he was
thoroughly beaten up by some operatives of the Department of State Services.
Three
officials of the DSS had on Monday brutalised Agbor and Toba Adedeji, a
reporter with Osun Defender, during a protest by the Nigeria Union
of Local Government Employees.
Agbor’s
phone was destroyed by the overzealous security agents, while Adedeji also
suffered injuries.
The
Secretary of the chapel, Mr. Olaniyi Ajibola, said on Tuesday that the DSS sent
N40,000 to Agbor, but the chapel had rejected the offer.
He said,
“The DSS sent N40,000 to Timothy Agbor, but we have returned the money to
the sender. The agency said the money was meant for the mobile phone that
was destroyed. We are not interested in money. What we are interested in is
justice.
“Many
operatives of the DSS in this state are known for this kind of behaviour; they
attack journalists at will and without provocation.”
Ajibola
had earlier in a statement called on the Presidency to caution the DSS
operatives.
The
secretary stated that apart from attacking journalists, DSS operatives in the
state had also been terrorising other residents without any cause.
- Punch
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