Grace Alheri Abdu, the journalist with Voice of America (VOA), who was arrested and later released by the military at Oyigbo LGA, for carrying out an investigation into what transpired in the area during the military invasion, has narrated her ordeal in the hands of her detainers.
Abdu in a statement yesterday, said the soldiers who arrested her were drunk to stupor and that she was lucky to be alive after the incident.
“They told me to thank my God that I was a female journalist, and not from any of the media houses based in Port Harcourt otherwise they would have wasted me and that nothing would happen” she said.
She furthermore denied the accusations by the military that she was transmitting live military operations.
