By Egufe Yafugborhi

NIGERIAN Union of Journalists, NUJ, has condemned soldiers brutality which left Anayo Onukwugha, Port Harcourt Correspondent of Leadership Newspapers, hospitalised.

File: Photo Journalists discharging their duties. Note this image was extraction from Google

Anayo was assaulted at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Rivers State, by a soldier believed to have been drafted from the Presidency on the day President Mohhamadu Buhari visited to commission the International Wing of the airport.

Onukwugha, who was hospitalized as a result of the injuries sustained from the attack, has been discharged but still ill and nursing pains when Sunday Vanguard visited him yesterday.

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A statement yeaterday by Ike Wigodo, Secretary, NUJ Rivers Council, “urged the military authorities to produce the perpetrator of the act and bring him to book as deterrent.