Three Suspects Arrested Over Attack On Journalist

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Three suspects, Sunday Igbudu, 34, Iorwa Aondowase, 26 and Mbaneen Ushahemba, 27 have been arrested over the recent attack of a reporter with Champion Newspaper in Lagos.
The suspects were charged before Igbosere Magistrate court on 6 October for attacking a crime reporter with Champion Newspaper, Joseph Saater Undu and they have been remanded in prison custody at Ikoyi prison Lagos.
The suspects, according to police, on 25 September, 2016 at Jakande Estate in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State, allegedly attacked the victim, Joseph Saater with fist blow and caused him bodily harm injuries on his left eye and elbow and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 171 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011. They pleaded not guilty.
The presiding Judge Mrs. O.M. Ajayi granted them bail in the sum of N50, 000 with two sureties in like sum.
The court ordered that the sureties must show evidence of tax payment and verification.
The suspects were remanded in prison pending when they will perfect their bail condition.
The matter was adjourned till 24 October, 2016.

Undu was trailed and attacked at about 6: 10 pm, in Jakande, First Gate, Lekki, by five armed men suspected to be hired assassins.
The gang accosted him and brutally attacked him with knives vowing to kill him over a report he published about Tiv community’s election held in Lagos recently.
The recuperating Undu narrated that  the armed men told him that they were sent to waste him and was saved by a Samaritan, one Mr. Moses who defended him and said he will not watch them kill an innocent man in his presence.
According to Undu, he went to Jakande with the newly inaugurated president of Mdzough U Tiv Lagos State chapter to console with the Tiv community Jakande over the death of one of their members
While they were there, a friend called him that, he was coming to meet with them there but lost his way.
He said he came out of the venue to the street to direct his friend when those men accosted him and brutally attacked him.
“They punched my eyes, hit me on my chest and  smashed me on the ground,” Undu said.
When they removed their knives to stab him, he said the Moses who was there watching now jumped in with his knife and provided a shield around him vowing to resist their attempt to kill him.