Plateau Killings: 7 Journalists Escape Death By The Whiskers In Plateau

Yakubu Busari

At least no fewer than seven (7) staff of a state-own media Plateau Radio Television Corporation (PRTV) with their broadcasting headquarters in Rayfield on Tuesday night escaped death by the whiskers when a group of Muslims irate youth attacked them.

The staff raised the alarm that their vehicle came under heavy attack by Miscreants at  Dandin-Kowa Jos  South local government council of the state.

According to them, the vehicle in which convey the newsmen was badly damaged by the miscreants.

Our correspondent reports that the 7 Journalists were returning home in a vehicle that was conveying staff on Night duty to their respective homes at 10:30 pm 17/08/2021 at the close of the station.

One of the Journalists who escaped the sad incident told our correspondent that their vehicle was badly vandalized.

In his words, he said; “we thank God, if the attack was successfully executed, our organization would have been burying seven staff of their dedicated staff but thank God we survived by the whisker.

“We ran into a roadblock which we all thought was manned by the police and vigilante just to be descended upon by the miscreants who came out from every direction,” he added.

Reacting to this development, the Chairman of Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ) Plateau State Council Paul Jatau condemned the unwarranted assault on the newsmen and called on security operatives to be alert.