The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Special Senate Committee which investigated the circumstances that surrounded the invasion of the National Assembly by the police on November 20 last year, has recommended stiffer punishment for all the six security personnel indicted in the unfortunate development.
The committee submitted its report on the floor of the senate on Wednesday but no date has been fixed for its deliberation.
A member of the committee told our correspondent on conditions of anonymity on Thursday that the report recommended, among others, heavy sanctions against six top police officers in the Federal Capital Territory command who were indicted.
The senator added that the six high ranking police officers who were indicted over their direct involvement in the act were recommended for outright demotion by the police service commission.
He said, “We recommended demotion among other punishments for all the officers numbering about six, who were directly involved in the shameful act.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, and some federal lawmakers were locked out of the complex on November 20 last year after a futile attempt to stop Tambuwal, by firing tear gas canisters at him and his colleagues failed.
The Police had said that it acted on security reports that the National Assembly would be invaded by thugs on the day when lawmakers were to either ratify or reject President Goodluck Jonathan’s extension of emergency rule in the North-East States of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States.
The senate leadership, after an extensive debate on the issue on the floor, set up a committee led by Makarfi, the chairman of its Finance Committee, to probe the circumstances that led to the invasion and report back in two weeks.
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