Hadiza Bala Usman, managing
director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, has called for the investigation and
prosecution of people who allegedly harassed her at the national assembly
premises.
In a petition to the
inspector-general of police, senate president and the director-general of the
Department of State Services, Usman explained that she was at the senate on
Tuesday to honour the invitation of the joint committee on navy, marine
transport and finance to its public hearing on the safe anchorage area of the
Lagos ports.
She explained that the committee
had invited other parties, which included the Nigeria navy and the Ocean
Maritime Solutions Limited (OMSL).
She alleged that she was attacked
by people believed to be “hirelings’ of Idahosa Okunbo, chairman of OMSL.
“In the course of the session,
Captain (Dr) Idahosa Wells Okunbo of OMSL, having made his submission, stormed
out visibly angry breathing fire and brimstone, ” the petition read.
“Following Captain Idahosa Wells
Okunbo outburst and abrupt exit, the Chairman of the Joint Committee closed the
session.
“On leaving the meeting room,
some hoodlums that accompanied Captain Okunbo to the hearing ambushed me at the
exit door and tried to push their way towards me to physically attack me,
raining abuses on me that I was taking food away from them and their boss, and
that they will find me and destroy me.”
She added that it took the
efforts of her security detail and security personnel deployed from the office
of the deputy senate president for her and her entourage to leave the premises
unhurt.
She said Okunbo should be held
responsible if “if any harm should befall her or any member of her family.”
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