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Journalists monitoring the Monthly Sanitation Exercise for the month of May on Saturday fell out with the Mayor, Umuahia North LGA, Abia State, Smart Ihuoma over the later’s comment that pressmen were imbeciles, criminals and mad people.
Trouble started when the pressmen after interviewing the Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Philemon Ogbonna, Member, representing Ohafia South State Constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Kalu Mba-Nwoko and SSA to the Governor on Environment, Prof. Ijeoma Iheukwumere, snubbed the Mayor.
After interviewing the trio, Smart Ihuoma, who positioned himself to be interviewed, was snubbed by the pressmen, which angered and forced unspeakable words out of him, calling the pressmen criminals, imbeciles and mad people.
The Mayor also threatened that he will ensure that the crop of journalists that covered the sanitation will not attend any state function, a statement that further angered the journalists who dared him while also telling him the reason for the snub.
The Journalists accused him of not regarding journalists who have in different fora publicised his activities as the Mayor of the Council without appreciation, saying he has consistently failed to acknowledge that Journalists exist.
Southeastposts reports that the Mayor lost his cool at some point, and wanted to attack one of the journalists, but the swift intervention of the Deputy General Manager of the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA), Umuahia zone, Catechist Ambrose Jonah, prevented him from finally attacking the Journalist from Family Love FM, Umuahia.
The Mayor who repeatedly said he will ensure that none of the Journalists at the event shows up for any State event, also bragged that he had such power to do it and has also marked the faces of the Journalists at the event.
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