Security operatives at the
National Assembly, Thursday, said they could not overpower the hoodlums who
carted away the Senate mace because they lacked the requisite training and
facilities.
Speaking with a high ranking
officer in the office of NASS sergeant-At-Arms, who did not want his name in
print, he said, “our major challenge is that our staff need training,
continuous training. It could be organised by outside experts or among ourselves
on how to handle the situation in the chambers”.
But when grilled on why the
suspended Senator, Ovie Omo-Agege was even allowed into the Senate chamber, he
said, “Actually, he was not supposed to have been allowed. But the way we work
here, sometimes, we are being demoralised. Maybe, our staff were thinking that
if they had stopped him, some of his colleagues would have intervened.
“When the hoodlums were
intercepted, the suspended senator said, ‘They are with me’. You know when your
master said, they are with me, it becomes a normal thing since he has
identified them”.
He continued, “But when one of us
ran out from the chambers to inform us that something was happening, we thought
that it was an issue between a visitor and our security personnel.
“But unfortunately, as we tried
to prevent them, they overpowered us”.
Speaking on why the hoodlums
passed through the villa gate successfully, he said it was largely because they
had no communication gadgets with which to raise alarms and disseminate urgent
information.
“What happened was because we
don’t have communication gadgets to pass information during such an urgent
situation. Even, one of us used his car to block them”, he added.
The highly placed security
officer, however, denied the knowledge of whether or not presidency had a hand
in the political brigandage and desecration of the hallowed chambers.
“As for whether or not the
presidency was involved, we don’t know. That is their politics”, he said.
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