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…as DSS operatives brutalise two National Assembly staff
By Gloria Ikibah
The management of the National Assembly has appealed for calm over the brutalisation of two of its staff, a Deputy Director, Dr. John Nnnaji – Clerk, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) and Comrade Chris Odo by men of the Directorate of States Security on Friday May 17, at the NASS complex.
In a letter signed by the Secretary, Human Resources and Staff Development, Birma Shuaibu Maina, titled “All Staff APPEAL FOR CALM”, he urged the DSS and other Security operatives should work in harmony with the Sergeant-At-Arms and be civil in the discharge of their duties.
The letter reads: “The Top Management of the National Assembly is aware of the unfortunate incident that happened on Friday, 17th May, 2024, which involved Dr. John Nnnaji – Clerk, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), Comrade M. C. Odo and some DSS Personnel at the National Assembly Complex.
“The Clerk to the National Assembly and Top Management Team visited Comrade Odo at the National Assembly Clinic and immediately called for an emergency meeting between the Management, Security Personnel and PASAN officials during which the unfortunate incident was deliberated upon and unanimously resolved as follows:
“i. that DSS and other Security operatives should work in harmony with the Sergeant-At-Arms;
“ii. all security operatives within the National Assembly Complex should be civil in the discharge of their duties; and
ili. all members of Staff should always display their I. D. cards for easy identification.
“The CNA and the Top Management hereby appeal to Staff to be calm, peacland law abiding as the situation is under control”.
Naijablitznews.com report that two senior staff members of the National Assembly were on Friday brutalised by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).
According to our source, the problem started at about 11:45am when the two staff were asked to identify themselves as they made their way from the New Senate Building to the White House section of the NASS Complex.
Mr. Nnadi and Odoh, a deputy director, had shown their ID cards to the DSS operatives but were accused of not identifying themselves properly.
Being senior staff of NASS, attempts to proceed to the White House from the door linking the walk way linking the two buildings, were resisted by the DSS operatives.
The action of the DSS was said to have led to a scuffle and outright physical assault of the staff by the operatives.
According to eye witness, every efforts to resolve the crisis, got the DSS operatives upset and were joined thereafter by four other operatives, who started brutalising the two staff by dragging Nnadi and pushing the Deputy Director (Chris Odoh) to their office at the White House.
The forceful movement and dragging of John Nnadi and Chris Odoh to the DSS office by its operatives from a distance of about 125 metres and the rising pandemonium, drew the attention of the staff of the Unity Bank and United Bank for Africa (UBA) as well as other employees of the Senate Public Accounts Committee and Journalists from the Senate Press Centre whose offices were along that route.
Not happy about the embarrassment of the two staff, other members of staff of the National Assembly from various offices at the White House, including a Sargent-At-Arms who often bears the mace during procession of presiding officers of the Senate spontaneously gathered at the front of the DSS’ office with a call on the operatives to allow the two victims go.
The Divisional Police Officer in charge of the the National Assembly, Alex Annagu and Deputy Clerk to the Senate (Legislative), Mrs Ilobah Isabella, later arrived at the scene and tried to calm the situation.
They appealed to the crowd to return to their respective offices.
While listening to the appeal from the DPO and Deputy Clerk, one of the affected staff John Nnadi stormed out of the DSS’ office, saying in a loud tone that the Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), Alhaji Sani Magaji Tambawal, must hear about the injustice and intimidation the DSS operatives had subjected him and the Deputy Director to.
His suggestion was spontaneously accepted by the crowd who joined him to march to the office of the CNA, chanting: “We no go gree o , we no go gree” for about 15 minutes before dispersing, since the CNA was said not to have been in the office at the time.
On getting back to the lobby, the DPO, further appealed to the victims and other staff that had gathered to allow peace to reign saying the police would investigate the matter to ascertain the cause of the misunderstanding and the subsequent action of the DSS operatives.
“My appeal to all at this point, particularly Mr John Nnadi, is that, we should all return to our offices while Nnadi and Odoh go to the Clinic for medical examination.
“Gathering here and chanting solidarity songs will not right whatever wrong that might have been committed but going to the clinic for medical examination and possible establishment of any injury from the alleged assault, will help in establishing a case,” he said.
The assaulted John Nnadi who was later joined by Chris Odoh, thereafter, went to the Clinic, while the enraged crowd subsequently dispersed at about 12:35pm.
Naijablitznews.com reports that upon the resumption of the lawmakers, the DSS took over security operation at the National Assembly and have been very unfriendly and strick on proper identification.
A late-night fire has destroyed six houses, several shops and storage facilities at Kofar Wanbai Market in Kano State, with property worth millions of naira reportedly lost.
The fire broke out at about 9:43pm on Friday in the Babban Layi, Yan Robobi section of the market, according to the Kano State Fire Service.
The agency’s Public Relations Officer, Saminu Abdullahi, confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Saturday.
He said a distress call from a Principal Fire Superintendent, Usman Idris Fagge, prompted the immediate deployment of firefighting teams from the state headquarters and stations at Rijiyar Zaki, Sabon Gari, Government House and Bompai.
Abdullahi said firefighters arrived to find the blaze had engulfed parts of a two-storey building measuring about 120 by 125 feet and used mainly as plastic shops and storage facilities.
He identified the affected houses as Gidan Alhaji Sani, Gidan Sani Muhammad, Gidan Alhaji Kwa Kwa, Gidan Alhaji Shafi’u and Gidan Alhaji Sulaiman.
According to him, the fire started on the upper floor before spreading to two shops on the ground floor, two on the first floor, six permanent stores and four temporary units on the top floor.
Firefighters eventually brought the inferno under control and prevented it from spreading to adjoining sections of the busy market.
Preliminary findings by the fire service indicated that the blaze was caused by a faulty solar system installation.
The Director of the Kano State Fire Service, Sani Anas, urged traders and residents to observe fire safety measures, install smoke detectors and ensure that functional fire extinguishers are available in commercial and residential premises.
A Kaduna-based man, Nasiru Musa Idris, has accused Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi of allegedly keeping his Moroccan wife away from him for about 11 months after he took her to the cleric for counselling.
Idris made the allegation in an interview with RFI Hausa, claiming he took his wife to Gumi after the cleric requested to counsel her because she was young.
According to him, his wife stopped responding to his calls after the meeting, while attempts to have security agencies investigate the matter were allegedly frustrated.
“For 11 months now, my wife has been in his hands through injustice and ill-treatment. He has no relationship with her; she had never known him. The only place they knew each other was through me,” Idris alleged.
Gumi, however, has denied the allegation, insisting that the Moroccan woman had already left Nigeria and was in Morocco with her parents.
The cleric, who declined to provide further details because the matter is before a court, also threatened to sue Idris for defamation.
“But I will take him to court for defamation against me. As for the issue of the girl, she has already left Nigeria and she is in Morocco happily with her parents,” Gumi said.
Idris said he first met Gumi at a pharmacy on Isa Kaita Road in Kaduna while he was with members of his family and later introduced his Moroccan wife to the cleric.
He said his wife had no prior connection with anyone in Nigeria before he travelled to Morocco to marry her, adding that the marriage was conducted with the approval of her parents and relevant authorities.
“The Moroccan girl had never known anyone in Nigeria and nobody knew her except through me. I went to seek her hand in marriage in her country, and we had an engagement with the approval of the embassy and the approval of her parents,” he said.
The dispute, according to Idris, escalated after Gumi allegedly asked him to obtain another marriage certificate from a Sharia Court despite the couple already having marriage documents issued in Morocco and Nigeria.
“I told him that I did not agree with the marriage certificate he told me to obtain. Later, he went to the Sharia Court in Malali and asked them to issue one to him,” Idris alleged.
He said he submitted several documents supporting the marriage, including papers from Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nigerian embassy in Morocco, alongside other documents and a police character report.
Idris further alleged that Gumi later sought the dissolution of the marriage and interfered with efforts by security agencies to investigate the matter.
He urged the cleric to honour a police invitation and submit himself to questioning.
“My complaint is that he should come forward and answer the invitation of the police so that an investigation can be conducted. If he is right, there is nothing stopping him from going to the authorities to clear his name,” he said.
Idris also rejected claims that his wife’s mother travelled to Nigeria and took her daughter back to Morocco.
He maintained that he personally processed the documents that enabled his wife to travel to Nigeria, insisting that he only took her to Gumi because he trusted the cleric and believed he was seeking to help the young woman.
“Because I trusted him, I took her there. From then on, whenever I called, she did not answer the phone,” he alleged.
Meanwhile, Malam Nasiru Ayuba, popularly known as Dan Agaji, chairman of the Volunteers of Sultan Bello Mosque, Kaduna, and Gumi’s personal assistant on special assignment, denied that the cleric kept Idris’ wife in his house.
“The allegation that Malam kept his wife in his house is not true. It was the woman herself who went to Malam to ask him for help,” Ayuba said.
He claimed that the Moroccan woman approached Gumi over a personal matter and sought his intervention, after which the cleric took the matter to court.
“She brought the matter herself because she knew what she was going through. Th
Today sons and daughters of Ikwerre LGA in Port Harcourt held a civic reception in his honour.
The message was as they declare that on election day, before 11 am, Rotimi Amaechi will tell his people to boycott the election because he knows there’s no way he’ll defeat us. If he wins his village, Ubima, then he has won the election. That’s if he will win his own polling unit.
Watch below:
Fire Guts Kano Market, Destroys Six Houses, Shops, Warehouses
Moroccan Wife Has Been Away From Me for 11 Months — Husband Accuses Sheikh Gumi
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