The speaker of the Kogi State
House of Assembly Ahmed Imam Umar and other lawmakers narrowly escaped death on
Tuesday when some suspected thugs disrupted the house sitting.
The thugs arrived the venue of
the chamber at about 1:40pm chanting, “what kind of rubbish sitting is this,
all of you should vacate this chamber or we kill you.”
The Speaker was whisked out of
the chamber, alongside other lawmakers who also scampered for safety through
the doors.
Tension heightened as the member
representing Igalamela Odolu constituency Friday Sanni who according to sources
is their primary target was also whisked from the Assembly but his personal
Assistant on Media Identified as Salisu became a victim of attack from the
suspected thugs.
Despite an earlier assurance from
the Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inaluegu, that the Assembly complex will be
safe, and the presence of heavily armed security men from the Nigeria Police,
Civil Defence, and Department of State Services, DSS, the thugs took over the
chamber just as security men watched helplessly.
Journalist were not left out, as
the reporter and Cameraman attached to the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA)
and Silverbird Television were also Accosted by the thugs who made attempt to
seize their camera.
Other Journalists from the
correspondent chapel of the Nigeria Union of journalists ( NUJ) Kogi State
chapter including some reporters in Kogi State took the route of the Assembly
fence to escape from the mobs.
It was however, gathered that the
suspected thugs came with four eighteen seated buses.
Before the thugs took over the
chamber, the 23 members present at the days sitting were deliberating on a
motion moved by a member from Kogi West who is calling on the Kogi State
Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello to withdraw his decisions proscribing Kogi State
University, Asuu which did not go well with the member representing (APC) Kabba
Bunu , Mathew Kolawole, Apc Ajaokuta Bello Hassan Balogun, and Ahmed Mohammed,
APC Ankpa 1.
But the Speaker, Ahmed Umar Imam,
going by the majority vote in the House sustained the prayer of one of the
motions thereby overruling the positions of the three opposing lawmakers.
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