These threats and muzzling are not only coming from government security officers, even private security guards are taking orders from their firms to either manhandle or threaten to beat journalists. Toby, who was standing on the outside of the building on Broad Street and was taking a photograph, was harassed by two security officers of the company. The FPA reporter later introduced himself to the Operations Manager of the company, Abraham Kollon, but Mr. Kollon also demanded that he deletes the photos before his phone is given back to him. Toby said Mr. Kollon insisted that he could not respond to any inquiry about the story on the betting industry and that FPA should not report anything about his company. When FPA editorial team contacted Mr. Kollon, he denied pressing Toby to delete the photos.

Source: Front Page Africa March 17, 2020 18:22 UTC