JUST IN: Senate asks security agencies to retrieve mace

* Despite Invasion Nigerian Senate Gets Another Mace, Continues
Plenary

The senate has asked security agencies to help in retrieving its
mace which was stolen after Ovie Omo-Agege, lawmaker Delta central
senatorial district, invaded the chamber with suspected thugs.

Omo-Agege was suspended last week for challenging the sequence
of election as proposed by the senate.

He had said it was targetted at President Muhammadu Buhari.

However, he made his way into the red chamber on Wednesday while
some unidentified persons who accompanied him carted away the
mace.

Responding, Abdullahi Sabi, spokesman of the upper legislative
chamber, said the act is tantamount to treason.

“This action is an act of treason, as it is an attempt to
overthrow a branch of the federal government of Nigeria by force,
and it must be treated as such,” he said in a statement.

“All security agencies must stand on the side of due process and
immediately mobilise their personnel to retrieve the mace and
apprehend the mastermind and the perpetrators of this act.

“This action is also an affront on the legislature, and the
leadership of the house has come to express their support against
this action.”

In a tweet shortly after the confusion, Senator Sani
stated: ”The senate invaded.Mace taken away.Deliberations
on whether to adjoined or not.I and others insisted that the senate
must not adjoin.I removed my waist Belt and lay to serve as a mace
for us to continue,My colleagues seconded.Then a spare mace brought
in and the session continued.Good Drivers are not known when the
road is smooth.”

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* Despite Invasion Nigerian Senate Gets Another Mace, Continues
Plenary

The senate has asked security agencies to help in retrieving its
mace which was stolen after Ovie Omo-Agege, lawmaker Delta central
senatorial district, invaded the chamber with suspected
thugs.

Omo-Agege was suspended last week for challenging the sequence
of election as proposed by the senate.

He had said it was targetted at President Muhammadu Buhari.

However, he made his way into the red chamber on Wednesday while
some unidentified persons who accompanied him carted away the
mace.

Responding, Abdullahi Sabi, spokesman of the upper legislative
chamber, said the act is tantamount to treason.

“This action is an act of treason, as it is an attempt to
overthrow a branch of the federal government of Nigeria by force,
and it must be treated as such,” he said in a statement.

“All security agencies must stand on the side of due process and
immediately mobilise their personnel to retrieve the mace and
apprehend the mastermind and the perpetrators of this act.

“This action is also an affront on the legislature, and the
leadership of the house has come to express their support against
this action.”

In a tweet shortly after the confusion, Senator Sani
stated: ”The senate invaded.Mace taken away.Deliberations
on whether to adjoined or not.I and others insisted that the senate
must not adjoin.I removed my waist Belt and lay to serve as a mace
for us to continue,My colleagues seconded.Then a spare mace brought
in and the session continued.Good Drivers are not known when the
road is smooth.”

More Details later