Keyamo hails lawmakers who scaled National Assembly gates

I have read myriads of opinions since Thursday, November 20, 2014, many of which condemned the lawmakers for scaling the gates at the National Assembly complex in a bid to gain entrance into the chambers of the National Assembly after the premises was cordoned off by the Police. I am sorry to say that many of these opinions condemning the action of the lawmakers are actuated by misinformation, partisan politics, and lack of knowledge of the law or plain bias. I completely disagree with those condemnations.


Firstly, if the Police truly had information that thugs were to invade the National Assembly, then the Police should have simply invited the leadership of the National Assembly to a meeting a day or few hours to that shameful incident to brief it on developments. The Police did not do so.

Let us not forget that the lawmakers have a legal, legitimate and constitutional right to enter into the Chambers of the National Assembly having been elected to so do by Nigerians. To prevent them from gaining entrance, therefore, without a court order, or any legislative order suspending any member or members from the precincts of the National Assembly (whoever the person or authority is) amounts to illegality. The Police in this case, engaged in pure illegality by barricading the gates of the National Assembly, even if they did so on the orders of the Inspector-General of Police. The orders of the I.G.P do not amount to law and he is not a demigod to decide who enters any premises or not.