Monday, September 24, 2018
An
EyeAfrica TV’s cameraman who was filming at a meeting of a group of teachers,
who called themselves Teachers For Change was allegedly beaten by Personnel of
the Police Intervention Unit (PIU) on Sunday at Abuko Upper Basic School.
Immediately
after the alleged assault on Babucarr Manga, The Gambia Press Union (GPU) said
the safety of every Gambian journalist is its most important priority and it
will always strive as a union to safeguard that.
“Gambia
Press Union (GPU) has just been informed that a journalist who serves as
cameraman for Eye Africa online TV was earlier this afternoon assaulted by a
member of the Police Intervention Unit while he was filming a meeting organised
by a group of disgruntled teachers in Abuko,” it said on Sunday.
Mr.
Manga was filming at the disgruntled teachers’ meeting when he was
attacked by
some PIU officers, beaten. He was reported to sustain some
injuries.
Teachers
for Change is a group of Gambian teachers who have been organising sit
down-strikes in protest for salary increment and full payment of provincial and
hardship allowances.
“We
want to assure our colleagues that the GPU is following this case and will
communicate its reaction/intervention as soon as we speak to the concerned
journalist and his employer who witnessed the incident,” the press union
Executive said yesterday afternoon.
Author: Momodou Jawo, The Point Newspaper.
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