As a way of protecting media practitioners from being harassed by security agencies, some civil rights advocates in Rivers State have advised journalists to stop covering government activities if law enforcement agents continue to assault them.
The State Chairman, Civil Society Organizations, Enefa Georgewill said any attempt to truncate press freedom would plunge the country into darkness.
Enefa Georgewill said: “We condemned in strong terms, the unlawful brutalisation of Journalists by security agents, describing those security agents that are harassing journalists as anti forces of democracy.”
On his part, the State Chairman, Civil Liberty Organization, Sotonye George urged journalists to obtain court injunctions that would bar security agents from harassing them.
His words: “The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended is faulty for failing to protect journalist.”
