Assembly invasion: Senators to sponsor motion demanding probe

Two senators have said they would sponsor a motion to probe the invasion of the National Assembly. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isa Hamma Misau and his counterpart in the Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, said they would sponsor a motion urging the Federal Government to set up a Judicial Commission of Enquiry to probe the invasion by masked operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). The lawmakers, in a joint statement in Abuja, said an open enquiry would enable Nigerians to know what led to the siege and those behind the plot to illegally take over the National Assembly. They said one of the assignments of the Senate on resumption would be a motion in which the National Assembly siege and the rape on democracy would be debated and appropriate resolutions taken on how to redress the situation. The senators said: “Is it not curious that the Federal Government has not deemed it necessary to constitute a judicial panel to conduct an impartial and public enquiry into the recent siege to the National Assembly, which amounted to a coup against democracy?]]>