Suspected thugs believed to members of the Ogun State branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers on Thursday unleashed terror on journalists and residents of Leme, Abeokuta, when they invaded the state secretariat of the All Progressives Congress.
The suspected thugs, also believed to be loyal to the state government, had invaded the APC secretariat at about 10.30am to stop a meeting of the members of the Harmonisation Committee scheduled to hold at the party office.
The rampaging thugs smatched cameras belonging to the correspondents of the Galaxy Television and MITV, Kunle Ojo and Taofeek Lawal, respectively.
The suspected thugs, armed with various dangerous weapons and missiles, also snatched blackberry phones belonging to the correspondent of the Radio Nigeria/Paramount FM, Mrs. Modupe Sobukola.
They also manhandled the journalists, including the State Correspondent of the Tribune, Olayinka Olukoya, with the aid of soldiers and policemen deployed in the APC secretariat.
The security agencies held the journalists while the thugs molested them and smatched their cameras and blackberry phones.
Scores of residents of the area were also seriously injured by the thugs, who attacked any member of the community in sight.
Several cars at a dealer’s shop near the APC state secretariat were vandalised by the thugs, who also capitalised on the commotion to dispossess residents of their valuables and other personal effects.
They also vandalised the State Secretariat of the APC.
The members of the state Harmonisation Committee, led by Senator Gbenga Kaka, later addressed newsmen at the Iwe Irohin Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
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