The National President of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Chris Isiguzo on Wednesday condemned the alleged attack, assault and threats to life on a pregnant female journalist and twenty other journalists by a member of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Mr Nkemka Onuma and his alleged political thugs numbering over 40 who carried dangerous weapons.

Mr. Nkemka Onuma(Pic)

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Thugs allegedly led by the member representing Afikpo South West constituency in the Assembly, Nkemka Onuma allegedly descended on the journalists and inflicted injuries on them, especially that of the Nation newspaper, Ogochukwu Anioke, Pilot Newspaper Samson Nwafor and a pregnant journalist.

Mrs. Grace Egbo of the Tribune Newspaper who was also hit on her stomach and face.

Mrs Grace Egbo

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Isiguzo who condemned the action of Onuma and the thugs demanded that the lawmaker should tender an unreserved apology for their action.

He also ordered that the medical bills of the victims should be taken care of by the lawmaker.

“I am yet to get the full details of what really happened in Ebonyi State House of Assembly but if what we read is anything to go by, it is shocking and totally unbecoming for an Honourable member of a House of Assembly to have abandoned his legislative duty to begin to unleash mayhem on innocent journalists in Ebonyi State.

“It is totally unacceptable to us and we demand that Ebonyi State House of Assembly should not just apologize to those people that were manhandled, they should also make sure that they are taken care of in the hospital because I learnt that one or two of those people is already in the hospital. So, they should take care of their bills in the hospital and assure us of their safety in that House of Assembly.

“There is no way that the legislature which is, of course, part of the ingredients of democracy in governance will still be the one to cause trouble or problem to the safety of journalists in Ebonyi state. so, the attack is totally unacceptable and we think in the next couple of hours, the House of Assembly should do the needful”.

On the threat to prevent journalists from covering activities of the Assembly, Isiguzo said, “the lawmaker in question does not have powers to stop journalists from covering the Assembly as he threatened. It is a public place and it does not belong to that particular lawmaker or the Speaker, it is a public institution and they don’t have right or such powers to bar any journalist from covering the state House of Assembly, it will never happen. If they try it, we will take the next line of action. They can’t even try it, the lawmaker was only trying to grandstand,” he stated.


https://dailypost.ng/2019/07/31/nuj-condemns-attack-pregnant-journalist-20-others-lawmaker-ebonyi/

Imagine hitting a pregnant woman on her womb.

EkunKekere:
Imagine hitting a pregnant woman on her womb.

They're all political thugs

Animals are the ones making laws for us

Next month na,one group will come and knack him"icon of democracy"award...woman beater..na dis type dey use and dump women after him don give dem belle finish

When I saw ebonyi state, I wasn't suprise.

Are they humans, where over 89.3 percent of them feed on violence.

They love fight and don't care the implications, don't try their resolve.

Generally are wicked...if I may put it that way.

What do u expect, when y"all carefully selected thugs and touts to lead u as against intellectuals. This Country needs revolution.

Besides @ Op, they hit the lady in her stomach, not womb. Where u for see womb or was there surgical operation

hiting someones womb? really what kindof headline is this... are the thugs mad


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Admin your Headlines doesn’t correlate with your write up. Is Chris the lawmaker or the spokesperson for journalist

Terrible act


Get your website today...check my signature

If I were her husband, I will sue you to kingdom come.

EkunKekere:
Imagine hitting a pregnant woman on her womb.

on her tummy or womb? Is the womb not inside the body again?

Oh please correct that statement. it's no Nkemka's thugs. "say" thug Nkemka and his followers hit a pregnant woman so people can understand it better and make comments. You get is guys?

the Igbo coward again, na only woman dey sabi to threaten


those at that side are enemy to humanity attributes

THEM NEED TO HAMMER THE IDIOT BLONCUSS

Queenbeeee:
on her tummy or womb? Is the womb not inside the body again?

because once u are pregnant u loose ur tummy and for that period below ur diaphragm becomes all womb ������...

Queenbeeee:
on her tummy or womb? Is the womb not inside the body again?

Aunty nurse, when you're pregnant your womb shoots out and your stomach part lays behind or above it. So, she was hut on her womb

Next week Alexreport will award him the face of democracy.

Ok

MelesZenawi:
When I saw ebonyi state, I wasn't suprise.

Are they humans, where over 89.3 percent of them feed on violence.

They love fight and don't care the implications, don't try their resolve.

Generally are wicked...if I may put it that way.

Disclaimer: I won't in anyway support or be a party to thuggery and stupidity.

When I saw your first sentence it left me wondering if there is really any state in Nigeria we'd hear such and be surprised.

Your succeeding sentence further informed me you need proper orientation on the kind of things to put out in cyberspace. You can make references as to where you got your statistics of 89.3%.
"If I'm called to any court of competent jurisdiction can I defend this my comment/ assertion as it were to the later with facts?" Ask your self this question before posting anything on the internet. It's a small world after all.
Let's be guided

solmusdesigns:



hiting someones womb? really what kindof headline is this... are the thugs mad


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I wonder o, not her stomach but her womb.

Wetin the pregnant gbeborun go do for there?

TemmyWon:

Aunty nurse, when you're pregnant your womb shoots out and your stomach part lays behind or above it. So, she was hut on her womb

Tnx mummy matron.. I now understand

Just like saying someone was hit on her kidney.

Is womb now an external organ?

Hitting a pregnant woman.... Hey!!! Ar u ok?.

Many animals in politics these days. Why assault people, much less, hit a woman on the belly.

donbachi:
Next month na,one group will come and knack him"icon of democracy"award...woman beater..na dis type dey use and dump women after him don give dem belle finish

Alex and his gang.

Womb or stomach

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Bolustical:
Ok

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Charity begins at home by their fruits we shall know them, I thank God my culture is rich and I am proud of it and it demands respect from everybody,I don't call my elderly people by their names without respect

Eziokwugbaoto:

Disclaimer: I won't in anyway support or be a party to thuggery and stupidity.

When I saw your first sentence it left me wondering if there is really any state in Nigeria we'd hear such and be surprised.

Your succeeding sentence further informed me your need proper orientation on the kind of things to put out in cyberspace. You can make references as to where you got your statistics of 89.3%.
"If I'm called to any court of competent jurisdiction can I defend this my comment/ assertion as it where to the later with facts" Ask your self this question before posting anything on the internet. It's a small world after all.
Let's be guided

Don't mind that idiot.