A non-government group Sha’aya’u Sarkin-Fawa Foundation in Zamfara state is set to give an award of ‘Resilient Journalist’ to Eyo Charles, the Daily Trust journalist assaulted by former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode in Calabar.
The group described Charles as having being castigated, intimidated and insulted by Fani-Kayode for asking who “bankrolled” his tour of the country.
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Chairman of the foundation, Sha’aya Sarkin-Fawa, said the maturity with which Charles handled his attacker had immensely attracted the foundation and left Charles deserving of “strong respect and recognition”.
Fani-Kayode continued his tour onto to Akwa Ibom, after Cross River.
“Fani-Kayode’s visit to Zamfara as one of the states he has visited and paid beggarly homage to the governors who he kept calling as his friend and the crisis that trailed the visit including the controversial traditional title Fani-Kayode cornered to himself along with his collaborators is still fresh in the minds of many Nigerians,” said Sarkin-Fawa.
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“The patient attitude but good journalist posture displayed by Mr. Charles gives more hope and believe to Nigerians that we still have good media practitioners in the country.”
