According to Enitan, These Journalists who are rarely appreciated by the society work around the clock to keep the society informed and stabilize the polity by filtering false news.
The high handedness and overzealousness of policemen in enforcing the curfew is rather disturbing even when the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 had earlier given members of the fourth Estate permission to move without harassment.
Like other essential professionals who had threatened or embark on industrial action over the harassment, Lagos journalists can also consider similar action if this unfortunate harassment continues unabated, Enitan warned.
Speaking further, Enitan stated “Some of our colleagues had contracted the dreaded COVID-19 virus whilst working to keep the society informed on the novel virus”.
It is therefore provocative to compensate our colleagues who are working in a very difficult condition with detention and harassment.