Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has condemned police brutality on one Mr. Amadin Uyi, a journalist working with Silverbird Television, stressing that the Inspector General of Police must launch an investigation into the attack.
The Bayelsa Senator who is the Founder and Chairman of Silverbird Group, stated in a tweet on his official Twitter handle, “I don’t have staff. I have family and an attack on them is an attack on me.”
1-I condemn the police brutality on @SilverbirdTV's Amadin Uyi. I don't have staff. I have family and an attack on them is an attack on me.
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) August 8, 2017
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3-I call on the Inspector General of @PoliceNG to launch an investigation into the attack on Amadin Uyi. We will be waiting and watching!
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) August 8, 2017
Bruce’s staff, Uyi is the journalist TheNewsGuru earlier reported was injured in Abuja when policemen fired tear gas canisters at protesters who were demanding the return of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The wounded journalist was said to have been rushed to a clinic at the Federal Secretariat complex, a few kilometres from the scene of the incident.
The protesters were having their sit-out at the Millennium park opposite the Unity Fountain, Maitama, Abuja when the armed policemen fired tear gas canisters to disperse them.
The protesters who are members of about four civil society organizations were demanding that Buhari [who had been on medical leave in London, the United Kingdom since May 2017] should return to the country or resign if he was incapacitated.
