Security operatives deployed to the National Assembly have barred journalists from covering activities in the legislative complex.
The action by the operatives degenerated to verbal and physical attacks on some of the journalists who were already accredited to cover the National Assembly.
Trouble started when the security agents told the journalists who were at the entrance of the National Assembly that they could not get access into the complex.
According to the operatives led by the Sergeant-at-Arms and other police officers on duty, they were working on “orders from above”.
The journalists who had their identity cards were prevented from going into White House Complex despite explanations that National Assembly’s Information Department was yet to issue permanent ID cards.
Efforts by the journalists to renegotiate entry with their temporary National Assembly cards were abortive.
This led to the physical assault of Nicholas Kalu of The Nation Newspaper journalist while Tolu Akinyemi, an accredited journalist with SuperScreen Television had his phones seized by the operatives.
However, the Office of the Clerk to the National Assembly denied issuing any such directive when contacted for comments.
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