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Senegalese Minister’s loyalists assault journalist, threaten him with death
Thursday, 08 July 2010 21:17
Najib Sagna, a reporter of the Wal Grand Place, a privately-owned Dakar-based daily newspaper was in
the morning of July 6, 2010 reportedly attacked by four assailants including a relative of Madam Coumba Gaye, a Senegalese minister of state.The assailants physically attacked Sagna at about 11: 45 GMT, while he was on his way to work.
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)’s correspondent in Senegal reported that the attack followed an article Sagna wrote in the July 5 edition of the newspaper that the assailants were not pleased with.
The correspondent said although the article with the headline: “The little Secrets of the little Minister”, did not mention the name of any minister, the loyalists of Madam Gaye claimed the article was referring to her.
Sagna told the correspondent that he recognized two of his assailants “they were Ndeye Gaye, the minister’s sister, and Baye Ndoye, the one who held a microphone during a demonstration the minster organized last week”.
The reporter said Ndeye Gaye told him that writing an article on her sister; meant signing his “death warrant”.
Source: MFWA
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