As the Police continue to occupy the Niger state House of Assembly, some workers have taken refuge under trees, while some stayed away from office. The lawmakers have restricted their meeting points to the Assembly quarters while leaders waded into the crisis.
Since Tuesday when the House members impeached the Speaker, Barrister Adamu Usman and elected Isah Kawu as the new Speaker, the police has disallowed the House members and the legislative workers as well as journalists entry into the Assembly complex in an operation led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police.
One of the staff who spoke on the condition of anonymity to LEADERSHIP Weekemd under the tree where they took refuge watching their office from a far in frustration, said that “ this is impunity of the highest order. How do they expect us to prepare the papers for the legislative regime?”.
LEADERSHIP Weekend observed that even the Clerk of the House of Assembly, Mohammed Kagara and two of his deputies, Shidu Salah and Bala Isah Ibrahim, were not allowed entry into the complex.
Junior staff members were equally seen hanging around and discussing the development in the Parliament. Some of them complained that the police occupation of the legislative complex denied them assess to their personal effects locked up in their offices.
It was learnt that this development has become a source of worry to the elders in the state who have been meeting with the legislators to prevail on them to allow peace to reign. But the lawmakers have maintained that they will not go back on the impeachment of the speaker.
Sources at the meetings hinted that the legislators have berated the action of the police, who they claimed, have forcefully denied them space to discharge their constitutional duty.
Whereas the State Police Public Relations Officer, Ibrahim Gambari, had earlier told journalists that the police at the Assembly building were not directed to deprive legislators and Assembly workers from attending to their official duties. LEADERSHIP Weeked observed that one of the roads of the dual carriage way lane has been blocked since Tuesday with no one allowed to go close.
It will be recalled that for fear of being served an impeachment notice, the Niger state Governor, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu, obtained an injunction from the high court in Minna Presided over by Justice Idris Evuti, restraining the House of Assembly from starting a process of impeachment against him. The first hearing of the case has been fixed for 27th May, 2015, just two days to the end of governor Aliyu’s tenure.

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As the Police continue to occupy the Niger state House of Assembly, some workers have taken refuge under trees, while some stayed away from office. The lawmakers have restricted their meeting points to the Assembly quarters while leaders waded into the crisis.
Since Tuesday when the House members impeached the Speaker, Barrister Adamu Usman and elected Isah Kawu as the new Speaker, the police has disallowed the House members and the legislative workers as well as journalists entry into the Assembly complex in an operation led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police.
One of the staff who spoke on the condition of anonymity to LEADERSHIP Weekemd under the tree where they took refuge watching their office from a far in frustration, said that “ this is impunity of the highest order. How do they expect us to prepare the papers for the legislative regime?”.
LEADERSHIP Weekend observed that even the Clerk of the House of Assembly, Mohammed Kagara and two of his deputies, Shidu Salah and Bala Isah Ibrahim, were not allowed entry into the complex.
Junior staff members were equally seen hanging around and discussing the development in the Parliament. Some of them complained that the police occupation of the legislative complex denied them assess to their personal effects locked up in their offices.
It was learnt that this development has become a source of worry to the elders in the state who have been meeting with the legislators to prevail on them to allow peace to reign. But the lawmakers have maintained that they will not go back on the impeachment of the speaker.
Sources at the meetings hinted that the legislators have berated the action of the police, who they claimed, have forcefully denied them space to discharge their constitutional duty.
Whereas the State Police Public Relations Officer, Ibrahim Gambari, had earlier told journalists that the police at the Assembly building were not directed to deprive legislators and Assembly workers from attending to their official duties. LEADERSHIP Weeked observed that one of the roads of the dual carriage way lane has been blocked since Tuesday with no one allowed to go close.
It will be recalled that for fear of being served an impeachment notice, the Niger state Governor, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu, obtained an injunction from the high court in Minna Presided over by Justice Idris Evuti, restraining the House of Assembly from starting a process of impeachment against him. The first hearing of the case has been fixed for 27th May, 2015, just two days to the end of governor Aliyu’s tenure.