Akpabio: Hoodlums Stealing Senators’ Phones, Valuables in N’Assembly Premises

Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has raised the alarm that hoodlums were invading the...

Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has raised the alarm that hoodlums were invading the National Assembly complex to harass and steal lawmakers’ valuables.

Akpabio, who claimed the lawmakers now feel threatened by their presence, said as the 10th NASS settled down for legislative activities, hoodlums and people who did not have any business in the premises had been invading the federal parliament.

According to him, the uninvited guests loitered without apparent purpose all over the Senate and the House of Representatives wings, and that the hoodlums constituted themselves as nuisance by harassing lawmakers and staff of the National Assembly.

Akpabio stated this, when he received in audience members of the National Assembly Service Commission, who paid a courtesy call on him at the NASS complex, in Abuja.

The Senate President’s lamentation came after the remarks by the Chairman of the NASC, Ahmed Kadi Amshi, who presented the challenges faced by the Commission and other issues to him.

“We are aware that the entire complex is under renovation. We must also look after the environment. It is not all about the staff, we will like to see a cleaner environment and a secure complex.  A lot of Senators have lost their telephones, because of the influx of people into the complex,” Akpabio said.

He explained that President Bola Tinubu would in December, inaugurate the N30bn worth different ongoing projects at the  National Assembly.

“The  entire Complex of the National Assembly  is like a construction site now due to ongoing general  renovation  work and fresh projects which would on completion,  be commissioned  by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in December this year. Aside the general  renovation work, part of new edifices being put in place, is the permanent office complex of the National Assembly Service Commission and very beffiting Library Complex,” he said.

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