Last weekend, Onesmo, the bodyguard to Tanzanian singer Diamond Platnumz is said to have allegedly physically assaulted a journalist just after Zuchu's concert at Kendwa Rocks, Zanzibar.
The cameraman from ST Bongo, who was reportedly capturing live footage of the event, was forcibly pushed and beaten by the bodyguard.
A journalist colleague expressed disappointment on behalf of the media fraternity regarding the incident.
"People wanted him to listen to what Diamond had to say because he had just apologized to Zuchu and we were taking live footage," she told Simulizi Na Sauti.
"The bodyguard held me by my chest, I got weak and I couldn't go on with the live. He pushed me and my colleague told me to leave because I would get hurt," he added.
"My co-host took the mic and followed them before I found him laying down. The rest of the journalists told me that he had been pushed and beaten by Diamond's bodyguard Onesmo"
"He had fallen down with the cameras and all the equipment we had been going live with. We called the ambulance and he was taken to the hospital," she stated.
She said that Diamond's management was super disappointed, "They asked us to give them the footage."
Adding, "Being a bodyguard does not mean you start wrestling with people."
