There was great pandemonium at the senate on Wednesday morning, after Ovie Omo-Agege, a suspended Senator from Delta state stormed the house with ‘strange men’ suspected to be thugs, carting away senate’s symbol of authority-the mace.
He was said to have snuck in through one of the glass barricades within the national assembly before the mace was seized with the support of the men who accompanied him.
The drama started shortly after Wednesday’s sitting commenced and Ike Ekweremadu, depute senate president, raised an alarm that some persons had invaded the senate.
The light also went off amid the confusion but was restored shortly after.
Security operatives tried to get to the mace before the Senator and his thugs but the latter had already lifted the instrument.
Amid the uproar, they overpowered the national assembly security and ran outside into waiting vehicles numbering three, including two jeeps.
They immediately drove away and were said to have left through the gate behind the national assembly
It is shocking how the Senator made his way into the chambers despite being suspended. It was however learnt that the seargent-at-arms at the entrance door gave access.
More details later.
