• VP’s security aides harass journalists
Since the withdrawal of security details attached to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, by the Inspector General of Police, the National Assembly security personnel in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arm have been drafted to the resident of the Speaker.
The Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, few days after the Speaker defected from PDP to APC withdrew all the security details attached to the Speaker.
Personnel of the Sergeant- at-Arm and the private security guards were seen all over the residence, taking charge of the security situation. Since the removal of the security details, the Speaker has been driving himself in and around the Federal Capital Territory with Sergeant-at-Arm office providing security for him.
Meanwhile security details attached to the vicepresident, Namadi Sambo, yesterday attacked some journalists in Abuja.The journalists were on their way to cover the presidential declaration of the Speaker House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. The journalists were attacked in the area near Aso Drive Junction (close to the Three Arms Zone) as the vice president made his way back to the Presidential Villa after muslim Jumat prayer at the National Mosque.
Trouble started when a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Buba K. ordered the arrest of one of the journalists, over allegations that he beat a security cordon mounted by the vice president’s security details.
Explanations by the journalist that one of the mobile policeman attached to the VP’s security convoy allowed his vehicle pass through the cordon fell on deaf ears as the DSP insisted on arresting the journalist and impounding his vehicle. The crisis deepened when other journalists who were at the scene protested the arrest.
The explanations that the team of journalist was on official assignment to cover the presidential declaration of Tambuwal was not accepted by the security details.
In an attempt to disperse the protesting journalists who had began to create a scene, a mobile policeman, Corporal Ayubu Ayefu, threatened to shoot a cameraman with Africa Independent Television. Corporal Ayubu Ayefu pointed his cocked AK 47 rifle at the AIT cameraman as he attempted to film the incident. “Look at my name tag, nothing will happen.
If you don’t leave this place immediately with your camera and your vehicle, I will shoot you. Now move!”, the corporal ordered. Tension however calmed down when a senior Department of Security Service (DSS) operative who witnessed the scene alighted from his vehicle and intervened.
The operative who did not disclose his name approached DSP Buba and appealed to him to douse the tense situation by releasing the detained journalist.
Source: National Mirror
Since the withdrawal of security details attached to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, by the Inspector General of Police, the National Assembly security personnel in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arm have been drafted to the resident of the Speaker.
The Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, few days after the Speaker defected from PDP to APC withdrew all the security details attached to the Speaker.
Personnel of the Sergeant- at-Arm and the private security guards were seen all over the residence, taking charge of the security situation. Since the removal of the security details, the Speaker has been driving himself in and around the Federal Capital Territory with Sergeant-at-Arm office providing security for him.
Meanwhile security details attached to the vicepresident, Namadi Sambo, yesterday attacked some journalists in Abuja.The journalists were on their way to cover the presidential declaration of the Speaker House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. The journalists were attacked in the area near Aso Drive Junction (close to the Three Arms Zone) as the vice president made his way back to the Presidential Villa after muslim Jumat prayer at the National Mosque.
Trouble started when a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Buba K. ordered the arrest of one of the journalists, over allegations that he beat a security cordon mounted by the vice president’s security details.
Explanations by the journalist that one of the mobile policeman attached to the VP’s security convoy allowed his vehicle pass through the cordon fell on deaf ears as the DSP insisted on arresting the journalist and impounding his vehicle. The crisis deepened when other journalists who were at the scene protested the arrest.
The explanations that the team of journalist was on official assignment to cover the presidential declaration of Tambuwal was not accepted by the security details.
In an attempt to disperse the protesting journalists who had began to create a scene, a mobile policeman, Corporal Ayubu Ayefu, threatened to shoot a cameraman with Africa Independent Television. Corporal Ayubu Ayefu pointed his cocked AK 47 rifle at the AIT cameraman as he attempted to film the incident. “Look at my name tag, nothing will happen.
If you don’t leave this place immediately with your camera and your vehicle, I will shoot you. Now move!”, the corporal ordered. Tension however calmed down when a senior Department of Security Service (DSS) operative who witnessed the scene alighted from his vehicle and intervened.
The operative who did not disclose his name approached DSP Buba and appealed to him to douse the tense situation by releasing the detained journalist.
Source: National Mirror
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