The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government to comply with the orders of a Federal High Court in Abuja directing it to take measures to prevent attacks on journalists and other media practitioners and to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of all attacks against journalists.

In a letter dated August 12 and delivered to the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice the next day, MRA expressed “deep concern regarding recent reports of continued attacks and harassment of journalists across Nigeria, particularly during the #EndBadGovernance protests, which took place between August 1 and 10, despite a subsisting order of the Federal High Court Abuja directing the Federal Government to take measures to prevent attacks on journalists and other media practitioners as well as to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of all attacks.”

In the letter by the Head of its Legal Department, Ms Obioma Okonkwo, MRA reminded the Attorney-General of the judgment delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo on February 16, in a suit it filed against the Attorney-General of the Federation in which the court granted the eight declarations sought by MRA.