Mr Jerry Usanga,\u00a0 a camera man of Channels Television Calabar,\u00a0attached to Government House Press Corps was killed\u00a0 on\u00a0 Tuesday following a misunder-standing at a club.<\/p>\n
A source told newsmen\u00a0that Usanga was out at a bar with some friends at the Federal Housing Estate\u00a0around 8 p.m. when an argument ensued between him and some people. The source said that in spite of\u00a0settling the problem, one of the people\u00a0hit\u00a0the deceased\u00a0 on the head, on his way home.<\/p>\n
The deceased\u2019s wife, Mrs. Rose Usanga, told our source that she had spoken with him at about 3 p.m. on the fateful day.\u00a0\u201dI called him later about five times and no one picked. After a while somebody called back with his phone. It was a strange voice.\u00a0I thought it was one of his colleagues. \u201cLater a strange voice called and said he was a taxi man. I said the phone was my husband\u2019s own and then the person told me to come and carry my husband\u2019s body.\u201d\u00a0The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), of the Federal Housing Police Division, Mr Abdulkarim Dauda, confirmed the incident and said investigation\u00a0had begun.<\/p>\n
Dauda added that a suspect was already in police custody. Reacting to the incident, Mr Omini Oden, Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) Cross River Chapter, condemned the act.\u00a0He expressed the\u00a0hope that the\u00a0police\u00a0would get to the root of the matter by prosecuting\u00a0the perpetrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr Jerry Usanga,\u00a0 a camera man of Channels Television Calabar,\u00a0attached to Government House Press Corps was killed\u00a0 on\u00a0 Tuesday following a misunder-standing at a club. A source told newsmen\u00a0that Usanga was out at a bar with some friends at the Federal Housing Estate\u00a0around 8 p.m. when an argument ensued between him and some people. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}