NDLEA, journalist give accounts over alleged assault, mob attack in Calabar

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, successful Cross River State person been accused of assaulting a Radio Nigeria journalist, Prince Alobi.

The incidental occurred during an cognition on Lemna Road, Calabar, connected Monday.

The bureau said its unit came nether onslaught from a mob astatine the scene.

Alobi, a broadcast writer with Radio Nigeria’s Canaan City FM 99.5, said helium was assaulted aft stepping retired of his adjacent bureau to screen the incidental astatine Parliamentary Extension, adjacent Northwest Filling Station, astatine astir 3pm.

According to him, helium heard gunshots and went to analyse aft informing his presumption that helium intended to study the development.

He alleged that an NDLEA operative slapped him, causing him to suffer consciousness.

“I was screaming, ‘I americium a property man,’ but the beating continued. I was bundled and thrown into the trunk of their Hilux, portion they collected my iPhones and smashed them both,” helium said.

Alobi said the alleged battle near him with terrible pains, peculiarly astir his ribs, and disrupted his enactment aft his phones were damaged. He called for accountability implicit the incident.

However, the Officer-in-Charge of the NDLEA Dragon Squad successful Cross River, Assistant Commander of Narcotics Kabiru Abdullahi, said the operatives were attacked by a mob portion attem...