Sports Journalists Forum(SJF) Condemns Horrific Assault On Member.


The Sports Journalists Forum (SJF), a group containing some of Nigeria's finest sports journalists has condemned in strong terms a physical assault meted out to one of its members Tracy Suo Chappelle on Sunday, February 25, 2024 in Lagos.

Chappelle, a football commentator with SuperSport (Pidgin) and a full time broadcaster with Wazobia FM, Lagos was driving home from work on Sunday evening when a car rammed into hers from behind while observing a precautionary slow-down movement on the Lekki Expressway.

Not Suo, nor SJF, as a group could have imagined what ensued after the accident as the titled Chief from Delta state was beaten to a pulp by four occupants of the car that rammed into Suo's vehicle - three men and quite unfortunately, a pregnant woman - to the point that Suo's blood spilled all over her treasured car's interior areas.

SJF found the behaviour of Wisdom Moses - as the chief assailant identified himself as well as his animalistic cohorts - on Sunday night gravely disgraceful and distasteful, thereby condemning such acts in the harshest of tones, not just because it happened to our esteemed member, but because no human being should ever be made to receive such battery.

We must however commend the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) whose officers on ground that fateful evening effected the arrest of the ironically named Wisdom Moses and a couple of his other evil perpetrators on the spot and also ensuring their prompt arraignment in court.

SJF notes that the prompt intervention of the Police Force that night as well as their quest for Justice for Suo is a reassuring development to the Nigerian populace that our security apparatuses can still be trusted when it matters most and repose our faith in them to follow it through till the end.
While not willing to meddle in a case that is already in the court of law, SJF hopes that the arraigned assailants, including the one at large are made to face the stiffest possible punitive measures so as to serve as an example to others who have such barbaric tendencies in their genes, while also hoping that the pregnant woman gets her fair share in advance.

Godwin Enakhena

SJF Super Admin

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