Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun, announced that the emergency meeting of the leadership of the National Assembly had been called off because of police siege.
The emergency meeting of the leadership of the National Assembly scheduled for Tuesday by Senate President Bukola Saraki can no longer hold.
It has been called off.
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday while speaking with journalists.
The cancellation of the meeting, it was gathered, followed the siege laid to the National Assembly by the police and men of the Department of State Security Service.
Following appeal by the Presidency for the legislators to reconvene to ensure smooth running of government activities, Saraki, on Monday summoned an emergency meeting of the leadership of the National Assembly.
The meeting was scheduled to hold at 12 noon Tuesday.
The National Assembly had adjourned sitting till September 25 in protest of allege attacks on the leadership of the National Assembly by security forces.
However, in the morning of Tuesday, policemen and men of the DSS blocked the entrance of the National Assembly.
The legislators had to force their way into the complex.
Complaining, Senator Rufai Ibrahim who was stranded along with others said: “We’re legislators and we’re supposed to have access to our offices.
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“The DSS came and blocked the whole entrance to the National Assembly and said it is orders from the above. We’re here waiting to know who gave such orders.”
Ben Bruce spoke with journalists on the incident, saying that those behind the siege would be dealt with.
His words: “We will ask them to revoke their Visas, the Visas of their wives and the Visa’s of their children. Any nation in Western Europe and North America. And let me say this very clearly: Let nobody test this institution.
“I call on all of you to photograph all those breaking the law, get me their pictures, get me their names. We will submit them to the embassies. I am in talks with them already, we will make sure their Visas are revoked.”
