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The sitting of Nigeria’s Rivers State House of Assembly was disrupted this morning when hoodlums and some members attacked the principal officers of the house, with an assortment of weapons.
Speaker Otelemaba Amachree
Speaker Otelemaba Amachree
The house which adjourned sine die for some weeks now, in the wake of the political crisis between Governor Rotimi Amaechi and President Goodluck Jonathan’s pointsmen in the state, reopened this morning at about 9.45 a.m.
Proceedings have barely started when some members, said to belong to the G5 minority group, arrived with some hoodlums and started beating up the majority leader of the house, Chidi Lloyd with sticks, microphone stands and any object that could serve as cudgels. The Speaker of the house, Otelemaba Amachree was similarly attacked and the mace broken.
According to early reports, the majority leader of the house, was so badly beaten, he was drenched in blood.
The police were said to have watched the violent scene as unconcerned observers.
The speaker, Amachree was about addressing a press conference as at the time of this report.
