Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate
president, says two senators were almost kidnapped in the “commotion” that
arose from theft of the mace, the senate’s symbol of authority.
Ovie Omo-Agege had on Wednesday,
gained entrance into the upper legislative chamber, accompanied by some
unidentified persons who carted away the mace.
Speaking at a reconvened session
that was made possible with a “spare mace,” Ekweremadu said the senate would
not be “intimidated” by threats to the national assembly.
“They forcefully took away the
mace at the senate and they passed through this entrance, passed through all
the gates and left the national assembly with that mace,” he said.
“They attempted kidnapping two of
our senators… but we decided that we will not be intimidated by this
circumstance.
“We would stand by our democracy,
we would defend our democracy.
“It is an affront on democracy,
it is an affront on the senate, it is an affront on the national assembly, and
it is an affront on our parliament.
“But we are going to stand
together to ensure that we continue the assignment Nigerians gave us to
represent them.
“We are going to get to the root
of this matter and I believe that I speak the mind of all of you here if I say
that security agencies must recover our mace within seven days.”
After an obvious uproar by
members of the house in protest of the seven-day mace retrieval period, the
speaker charged security agencies to retrieve the mace in 24 hours.
“We are giving the inspector
general of police and the director of the SSS (state security service), to
recover our mace within 24 hours.”
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