Nigeria: Sacked NIMC Staff Beat National Assembly Security, Shut Out Legislators

20 February 2013

Sacked staff of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) yesterday barricaded all the gates of the National Assembly Complex and barred senators, members of the House of Representatives, legislative aides and others from getting access.

The NIMC staff, in their hundreds, stormed the National Assembly Complex as early as 8am to protest their dismissal. About 4,600 of them were reportedly dismissed.

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