Speaking to SaharaReporters, Mohammed said, he was filming the chaotic scene when the police began tear-gassing protesters, who responded by hurling back the canisters. 

Some police officers have attacked and injured Yakubu Mohammed, a PREMIUM TIMES reporter, during the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest in Abuja on Thursday. 

The officers struck Mohammed with the butts of their guns and batons, causing him a head injury. 

Speaking to SaharaReporters, Mohammed said, he was filming the chaotic scene when the police began tear-gassing protesters, who responded by hurling back the canisters. 

I was filming the violent moment when the police were tear-gassing the protesters and the latter were also hurling back the canisters, he narrated.

"Despite explaining that Im a pressman, they brutalised me, hit me with gun butts on my head and shoulder until they seized my phone," he said.

He was then forced into a police van with four other detained individuals. I was then hurled into a police van where I met four other arrested persons, Mohammed added.

A few minutes later, he was released with an intervention of an unidentified fellow journalist, Mohammed said.

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