Immigration officers assault female journalist in Edo

Officers suspected to be of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have assaulted a female journalist working with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Joy Odigie, in Benin City, Edo State. It was gathered that the female journalists visited the Edo command of the service to interview its Public Relations Officer, Ake Kenneth, on the reported burglary at command’s offices. Narrating her ordeal, the journalist, said, “I was already on the staircase, but when I realised that I was being called, I came down from the staircase. “I told them that I was a journalist and wanted to see the PRO. One of them answered that he knew I was a journalist and started shouting that he wanted to search me, that I could be carrying a bomb.