NDLEA and Journalist Give Accounts of Alleged Assault and Mob Attack in Calabar

Radio Nigeria journalist Prince Alobi says NDLEA officers assaulted him on Monday as he covered an operation on Lemna Road in Calabar. He alleges that a slap left him unconscious, that officers put him in a vehicle’s trunk, and that they seized and smashed his two iPhones. Officer Kabiru Abdullahi says the officers were attacked by a crowd after intercepting suspected drug dealers; one officer was hospitalized and the initial suspects escaped. The NDLEA says it arrested three people accused of instigating the attack and will compensate Alobi and replace his phones.