A team of armed Policemen on Thursday, reportedly stormed Joy FM, a radio station in Otukpo, Benue State, which belongs to former Senate President David Mark.
The armed security operatives, upon arrival at about 1 pm, allegedly forced one Oloche Adeyi, who was in the studio casting the 1 pm news, to abruptly stop the broadcast at gunpoint.
They also manhandled some staff of the station, according to the Managing Director of Joy FM, Christabel Iyanya, before sealing off the outfit.
The team, which was reportedly led by the chairman of the Benue Internal Revenue Service (BIRS), Sunday Odagba, and Ikwue Ikwue of the State Ministry of Commerce and Industry, said the station was owing for business premises.
In the words of Iyanya, “They came and laid siege on the station, causing pandemonium, as nobody was aware of their coming or the reason they had to invade a running station with two trucks of armed policemen.
“They roughly handled my staff on duty, right from the…
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