Usman Writes Lawan, Protests Attack by Hoodlums At National Assembly

* Seeks thorough investigation

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms.
Hadiza Usman, has petitioned President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad
Lawan, over alleged unruly behaviour of some suspected hoodlums and
physical attack on her at the National Assembly premises on
Tuesday.

In a three-page petition dated December 4 and entitled “Petition
Against Unruly Behaviour, Physical Attack and Threat in the NASS
chambers by hoodlums sponsored by Wells Ogunboh of Messrs Ocean
Maritime Solutions Limited (OMSL),” Usman said she was ambushed at
the exit door after attending an investigative hearing on the
activities of OMSL and other security agencies at the Safe
Anchorage area in Lagos at the Senate building on Tuesday, December
3.

According to her, “As I walk out of the meeting room, I was
ambushed at the exit door by hoodlums shouting and pushing their
way toward me trying to gain close access to my person to
physically attack me raining curses at me that I was taking food
away from them and their boss, Captain Okunbo, that they will find
me and destroy me, that I will never get away with this act”

The NPA boss further stated that it took the intervention of her
security agents and others around her which starved off her being
assaulted “and had to push me back into the meeting room where I
was ushered away to Senator Danjuma Goje’s office where I waited
hoping for the hoodlums to disperse Usman”.

She, therefore, expressed concern that she could be openly
attacked by suspected hoodlums within the precincts of the National
Assembly.

Her words: “To think that hoodlums will be sponsored by people
and allowed access to National Assembly premises to intimidate and
humiliate government officials who have been invited by virtue of
their offices as representatives of the federal government for me
is the height of impunity and disrespect.”

She, therefore, requested the Senate president to carry out a
thorough investigation of the incident so that the culprits could
be made to face the full wrath of the law.

This, she further submitted, would not only be punitive “but
serve as a deterrent to anyone to be at their best decorum within
the revered premises of the National Assembly.”

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