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Thugs take over #FearlessInOctober protest in Port Harcourt, beat up journalists (Video)
Thugs and hoodlums have reportedly taken over the #FearlessInOctober protest in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, attacking and beating up journalists for daring to film them.
According to Channels Television, the thugs, wielding canes and other weapons, took over the protest ground in front of the Federal Secretariat, and forcefully chased away the protesters.
They also reportedly beat up some journalists who had the effrontery to film their attack.
READ ALSO: Police deploys operatives, equipment ahead of #FearlessInOctober protest
“Thugs have taken over the protest ground in front of the Federal Secretariat along Aba Road in Port Harcourt.
“They are wielding canes, saying they don’t want any protest in Rivers state. They said they’d beat up any journalist who dares to film them,” the media outfit wrote on its X handle.
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