When contacted, the Commissioner of Police in Imo, Abutu Yaro, confirmed the arrest but added that the operatives were not from his command.
Browsing: newspaper vendors
Newspaper distributors and vendors in Awka, Anambra, on Monday, embarked on an indefinite strike, following alleged clamp down on their members by officials of the state government’s agency.
Some of them, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday said that they were almost thrown out of job as most of them had to look for other means of sustaining themselves and their families.
Despite denial by the defence spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade that the military has found nothing wrong with the editorial content of the affected newspapers, the military men warned all the newspaper distributors and vendors in Minna not to sell any of the three newspapers and threatened to deal with anybody caught selling those papers
The beat up newspaper vendors and circulation officers.
The vendors and circulation officers were seen running helter skelter for their lives