Pandemonium broke out on Monday morning at
the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja,
when security details attached to the office of the
Senate President Bukola Saraki assaulted
journalists covering the trial.
Trouble started when Saraki and Ike
Ekweremadu, his deputy, arrived the court with a
retinue of security operatives, who stationed
themselves at the entrance of court and
threatened to shoot photojournalists and
television cameramen.
The camera operators and photojournalists
maintained that they wanted to take cutaway
clips to enable them to establish their story before
the start of the court sitting. The security aides
rejected the explanation of the journalists and
attacked them with gun butts.