Armed youths believed to be political thugs of Friday night invaded an Hotel in the Orazi axis of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State and disrupted live crossing conducted by Arise Television.
The thugs, who forced the live interview to end halfway had carted camera and other equipment belonging to the medium.
It was learned that a team of Arise TV crew were conducting a live interview with former Commissioner for Employment Generation and Empowerment, Dr Leloonu Nwibubasa at the said hotel when the assailants stormed the premises.
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It was alleged that Nwibubasa appearing on the live programme, News Night, was speaking on the political situation in the state and was speaking on issues not aligning with the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, when a man who was at the hotel’s lounge called on the assailants.
A source, who declined giving out his name allaged that the thugs were armed and had invaded the hotel around 9:15pm.
The source, alleged that both the Commissioner and the Arise Cameraman, escaped by the whiskers, adding that the angry thugs who claimed that the interview that sounded Anti-Wike was conducted in their territory broke into rooms in search of the duo.
It narrated: “They were chanting in their local language (Ikwerre) that they would not allow such interview on their land. They were forcing doors open searching for the former commissioner and the Arise TV guys.
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“The workers in the hotel started running helter-skelter. They later got to the spot where the interview was holding and started threatening the former commissioner and the Arise crew to discontinue the interview and forced them to stop.”
A reporter with the Arise TV, Mr Andy Omano, who had also escaped the scene, reached out to the police for distress.
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