Senate President, Bukola Saraki has narrated the ordeal he faced with the Police while trying to honour its invitation and report for plenary.
His narration followed complaints lodged by Senators Chukwuka Utazi and Samuel Anyanwu over the Deputy Senate President’s ‘house arrest’ by security operatives on Tuesday.
Saraki recounted: “The road leading to my place was cornered off and all cars coming in and out as early as 6:30 were being stopped and you have to come down.
“My convoy was stopped from moving. Given something that one was prepared for, I had my own car too. So the deputy senate president called me and said he could not come here.
“And as you are all aware, very late yesterday, at about 8.00pm, I received a letter asking me to report to the police on a case of this offa robbery which had been concluded before now.”
He continued: “That’s the situation why the DSP could not come here and I was already going somewhere else, if not this plenary would not have been able to hold today. So I had to come here.
“But as you all rightly said, if one of our colleagues cannot come out for no fault of his, I don’t see how we can continue to sit and ignore the fact that a presiding officer cannot be here.
“And if it was by the plan, I too, would not be here. It was just by the intervention of the Almighty God that I was able to get myself here.”
The red chamber then demanded that the security agencies vacate Ekweremadu’s house immediately and allow him to enjoy his constitutional right.