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A member of the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon Kennedy Ibeh, who\nrepresents Obowo State Constituency, is at the verge of being sanctioned if\ntheir pleas of journalists to be state legislature are anything to go by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ibe is being accused of masterminding attack on a journalist in\nthe state which sparked off a protest against him by calling the House\nleadership to sanction him for dishourable acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A cross sections of some practicing journalists in Imo State under\nthe platform of “Guild of Imo Field Journalists, GIFJ”, was on\nWed .June 3rd 2020, took to a very peaceful protest to the Imo State House of\nAssembly, demanding the urgent suspension of the lawmaker representing Obowo\nState Constituency, Hon. Barr Kennedy Ibeh, for beating and battering\ntheir colleague, Comr. Finian Chuks, the Publisher of Newsfield Newspaper\nOwerri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The aggrieved-protesting journalists who were led by their\nChairman, Guild of Imo Field Journalists, GIFJ, Comr Kelechi Ugo, collectively\nexpressed dissatisfaction over what they described as injustice, intimidation\nand harassment by politicians especially as they frowned at the action of the\nlawmaker against their colleague, Finian Chuks, by some thugs suspected to have\nbeen sponsored by the lawmaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are here on a peaceful protest to inform the general\npublic and the good people of Imo State that the beating of Comr. Finian\nChuks,(our colleague in the media industry) is unaccepted and can never be\ncherished any more by anybody or group of people. We are also not happy on\nmanner in-which the journalists was humiliated and beaten up by thugs. That\nmeans, journalists operating in Imo State does not have freedom of information\nany more”, Comr. Ugo submitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It could be recalled that Comr. Finian Chuks was brutally battered\nby Hon. Kennedy Ibeh’s thugs at Imo APC Secretariat on Thursday 28th May 2020\nduring the political party of some members of Imo PDP into APC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The journalists who were armed with various placards inscriptions\nwhich includes:” Suspend Hon. Kennedy Ibeh now, Journalists are no\nlonger safe in Imo State, Suspend Obowo State Lawmaker now…Journalists call\nfor help, and Enough is enough”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Responding, the Imo House of Assembly member representing\nOru-West, Hon. Barr. Dominic Ezerioha, who is also the House Committee Chairman\non Information\/Judiciary, while addressing the protesting journalists,\nexpressed worry over beating of the journalists but called on the newsmen to\nalways write on the real truth and stop projecting falsehoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barr. Ezerioha, therefore appealed to the newsmen to go back to\ntheir various media organizations even as he assured to tow the line of peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other lawmakers who accompanied him to the protest ground\nincludes:”the IMHA member for Isu, Hon. Mrs Ngozi Obiefule, and that of\nNkwerre State Constituency, Hon. Prince Obinna Okwarra, who jointly appealed to journalists\nto calm down, even as they assured the press that the House must look into the\nmatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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