Nigeria’s Deputy Senate
President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has given his own account of how he caught a
hired assassin with dangerous weapons in his house early Tuesday morning.
Explaining through Order 42 of
Senate rules, he said, his security details and himself engaged one of them who
was being led to his bedroom by his son after he was overpowered, but others
escaped having seen their courage.
Ekweremadu expressed regret that
the Inspector General of Police phone lines were off when he made a distress
call, noting that no life was safe in the country again.
“At 4am this morning, assassins
entered my house and were being led by my son to my bedroom, but were engaged
in a fight and struggle and we later caught one of them while others escaped.
“But the most annoying part of
the issue was that I called the IG of Police and his line was off.
“I called the DIG, but no
response and I then reported the matter to Apo Divisional Police and they came
and saw the dangerous weapons we seized from them.”
“I want to say that there is no
safety for anybody again and I want to thank God that I am alive to tell the
story, though we have handed the criminal over to the police. ”
In his remark, the Senate
President, Dr Bukola Saraki said, the Police need to sit up over the
frightening security situation Nigerians find themselves.
“We want the Police to do a
thorough investigation and should not be partisan over this and report back
within 24 hours.
We reported earlier on
Tuesday that the Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu escaped
assassination attempt at his Apo legislative quarters.
In a statement made available to
the newspapers by one of his media aides, the DSP’s wife, his son and other
members of his family were in the house when the attackers came.
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