Nearly one week after hoodlums invaded the National Assembly, the Senate is setting up a joint committee with the House of Representatives to examine the factors which led to the invasion and find recommendations to ensure it does not reoccur.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, made this announcement on Tuesday, at the resumption of legislative proceedings for the week.
The announcement comes after unidentified persons on April 18, stormed the Senate Chambers and disrupted the proceedings.
The invaders snatched the mace and took it away.
Reports linked the invaders as supporters of the Senator representing Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo- Agege who was suspended last week.
During today’s plenary, Senators raised fears over what they described as security challenges in the National Assembly, which paved way for the hoodlums.
For instance, Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Shehu Sani, had alleged the thugs that invade the Senate, carting away with the mace got help from persons within Senate.
He described the incident as an act of ‘collusion’.
“If it is not collusion then what should we call it? he questioned. “As far as I am concerned they went in and the securities simply melted away, try entering the National Assembly and see the security checks you face”, he insisted that it was collusion”.
The Senate leadership thereafter directed its Committee on Security to devise new ways of strengthening security in the National Assembly.
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