Nigeria: Mark - Claims My Security Aides Tear-Gassed Tambuwal Embarrassing Vexatious

18 December 2014

Abuja — The Senate President, David Mark, on Wednesday described as embarrassing, dubious, vexatious and blatant falsehood submissions by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the National Assembly, James Idachaba, that his security detail tear-gassed the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, on November 20.

Idachaba, while testifying before the Senate panel probing the invasion of the National Assembly by the police, had said on Monday that he saw Mark's security detail firing tear-gas with insistence that none of the policemen under his division fired a canister of tear-gas, but Mark's detail during the episode.

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