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Suspected political thugs have invaded Londa Hotel in the Orazi axis of Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State on Friday night disrupting Arise News live interview.
The Arise TV crew were having the live interview with former Commissioner for Employment Generation and Empowerment, Dr Leloonu Nwibubasa at the hotel when the assailants stormed the hotel.
Nwibubasa was speaking on the political situation in the state at the time.
Eye witnesses said the thugs who were armed broke into rooms around 9:15pm, looking for both the former Commissioner and the Arise Camera man.
They were chanting in their local language, forcing doors open and seizing people’s phones. Workers in the hotel started running helter-skelter for fear of been attacked.
The assailants later got to the spot where the interview was holding and started threatening the former commissioner and the Arise crew to discontinue the interview and forced them to stop.
The Arise crew was forced to make a distress to their colleague who immediately alerted the police before dashing to the hotel.
Already,the police have taken the statements of all those involved.
The political thugs seized a Sonny Canada Zed 280, industrial tripod, wireless microphone and other accessories.
Ironically, the Arise News TV crew had earlier Friday covered an event by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Woke in Omoku in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni local government area.
Already, Dr Nwibubasa has condemned the attack, saying the development is not healthy in a democracy.
