ASSAULT ON FEMALE REP: C’TTEE REPORT RECOMMENDS DISMISSAL OF PRISONS OFFICER

THE House of Representatives Committee on Interior in its report, yesterday, has recommended the immediate dismissal of the prisons officer, SIP Idaa Odeh, who allegedly assaulted Joan Mrakpor last Thursday.
The committee also recommended that Corporal Esther Hassan, ASP Sunday Akoh of the Police Force and Adeboye I.0 of Department of State Service, DSS, be disciplined and redeployed.
In the report, it was also suggested that the Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act should be amended as a matter of urgency to the effect that only the President, Vice President and Chief Justice or a visiting President could come into the National Assembly premises with moderate convoy and recommended that penalties should be provided for offenders.
For refusing to show up at the public hearing held last Monday, the report recommended that DCG Umar Shehu Kangiwa be arrested and tried for violating Section 11 of Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act by the Attorney General of the Federation.
In a related development, a group, Anioma Youth Council, stormed the National Assembly yesterday demanding the sack of the prisons boss, Mr. Peter Ezenwa Ekpendu.