By Ehi Ekhator, Naija Center News
The force PRO at Federal Capital City, Abuja, AG. CP Emmanuel Ojukwu has released a statement concerning the crisis that embroiled the national assembly on Thursday.
According to the Police PPRO, he disclosed that the police were present at NASS after gathering information on the alleged plans of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to invade the national assembly, INEC, and lastly the Presidential villa.
NAIJA CENTER NEWS had published yesterday, how the protest led by the leadership of the APC led to the lock down of police headquarter in Abuja.
CP Ojukwu said that the police began to monitor their activities after they left the headquarter, adding that their intelligence revealed that the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi made a certain statement to invade different places.
He said “The APC top officers led by their chairman, very citizen of Nigeria and elders statemen with his excellency of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi and many APC followers, sympathizers and many never do well, they came and block our gate for more than 2 hours. They came with ambulances thinking there will be showdow with the police, but we showered a lot of restraint and after they left our premises.
We continued monitoring their actions and utterances, in the course of it, we had governor Amaechi saying that if they don’t win 2015 election, they will form a parallel government. We also heard that storming the force headquarter was the first step that such way, they will invade the IEC, National Assembly and lastly the presidential villa”
Following that intelligence, the police began to monitor of these political actors. Yesterday, Thursday the 20th of November, we had crdible intelligence that there will be mayhem in the national assembly. so it’s our duty to protect lives and properties and so the police mobilsed to check entrance and exit of national assembly. Both chambers were cut off, and adequate police and logistic deployed to protect lives and property.
National Assembly is a national asset, it’s a national heritage, we won’t allow hoodlums that tried to attack the force headquarters the day before to have access to such priceless edifice; and so the police were fully on ground. Our interntion and mission was to screen everybody that entered that premises. From the senate angle, all the senators were checked, and they entered the premises including the Senate President himself.
But on the House of reps side, a good number of them came and were screened and they entered. But as the speaker was coming, he came with so many never do well thugs, those that confirmed our intelligence that there will be trouble in the national assembly, they refused to be checked, they refused to be screened. Some of us may have seen on the screen where they were shaking the gate, destroying government property. That gate is a government property, and destroying it will amount to vandalism.
As if that was not enough, so many of them climbing the gate which i don’t know what that means, i don’t know what that means. In the course of it also, six of them attacked a policeman in uniform and that led to the teargas that dropped ad affect some of them, following that they forced themselves into the assembly, and many of us, we are witnesses to the riotus conduct in the assembly of which the Senate President himself was attacked. As i speak to you now, his ADC is hospitalized because they broke his leg in the process.
Watch the Press Conference here
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