JUST IN: Police return to seal Plateau Assembly
The PUNCH reports that for about two months, the Plateau State House of Assembly was under lock and key at the instance of the police high command whose personnel daily manned the Assembly complex.
Since the police sealed the Complex about two months ago, the lawmakers have not been able to hold plenary until last Tuesday,Meanwhile, the police explained that it sealed the Complex to forestall a breakdown of law and order in the wake of the leadership crisis rocking the Assembly. The lawmaker representing Jos East Constituency, Ayuba Abok, and his counterpart from Pengana Constituency, Yakubu Sanda, had been engaged in a legal battle over the seat of the Assembly’s Speaker.
When contacted on the latest barricade of the Assembly complex shortly after Tuesday’s plenary, the spokesman for the state Police Command, Alabo Alfred said, “The police will not be dragged into the politics of the state. Our duty is to maintain law and order, and that is what we are doing at the state Assembly complex.”All rights reserved.
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