Two Nigerian journalists covering the 2013 Africa Cup of
Nations (AFCON) were kicked, dragged on the ground, threatened with cocked guns
and forcibly detained for two hours by officers of the South African police in
Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon.
Debo Oshudun, Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) for Central and Southern Africa and John Joshua Akanji, a Deputy Editor of
The Sun Newspapers were onboard a taxi on their way to cover the departure of
the AFCON winners Super Eagles when shortly after they both alighted, they were
surrounded by no less than 20 fully armed South African police officers who
threatened to shoot them after they insisted they were
Journalists.
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