About 250 journalists who covered the 2019 general elections were molested and attacked during the course of discharging their lawful duties on election days, the International Press Centre, a human rights organisation, said on Tuesday.
The organisation therefore demanded the provision of protective wears, including bullet-resistant vest for journalists that would cover the 2023 general elections.
The Executive Director of IPC, Lanre Arogundade, stated these in Abuja during the presentation of the outcomes of the organisation’s analysis of trends in reportage of the 2023 election issues by 15 print and online newspapers for October and November, 2022.
The PUNCH reported earlier that the media monitoring is one of the activities being implemented by IPC under an European Union funded project titled,
Strengthening the media for fair, accurate, ethical, and inclusive coverage of the electoral processes and elections in Nigeria.
