NASS blockade: PDP BoT, Makarfi want Osinbajo to penalize offenders

Chairman, Board of Trustees of Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Walid Jibrin and a pesidential aspirant of the party, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi has called on the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo to mete out punitive measures against perpetrators of Tuesday’s blockade of the National Assembly.
A detachment of Department of State Security Service (DSS) had on Tuesday barricaded all entrances to the NASS complex, preventing senators and staff from gaining access to the hallowed chambers.
But the Acting President in a swift reaction ordered the sack and arrest of the DSS Director General, Lawal Daura for what the presidency called, ‘undermining national security’.
Senator Makarfi condemned the NASS blockade, but commended the decisive action of the Acting President and urged Osinbajo to go beyond that by ensuring that the masterminds and all those connected are made to pay for it in accordance with Nigerian laws.
Makarfi in a statement released by his media aide, Mukthar Sirajo said, “the siege on the National Assembly yesterday, by armed men of the DSS signposted a new low that anti democracy agents seem ready to bring our country and its democratic processes to.
“As Nigerians grieve over this heinous and unforgivable show of desperation and impunity, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi finds it necessary to once again commiserate and identify with, not only the leadership and members of the National Assembly, but also the entire peace loving and democratic Nigerians.
“He once again urges us all to come together and rally round our democracy as it comes under this unfortunate assault.
The senator reaffirms his belief in the inalienable rights of all Nigerians to legitimately belong to whatever platform they wish to identify with, without let or hindrance from any quarters.
“These rights, enshrined in our constitution and so many other international conventions must be respected by all, especially a government, which itself is a product and beneficiary of same.
All forms of intimidation and persecution against people doing nothing other than exercising their God-given and constitutional rights must stop forthwith,” Makarfi said.