{"id":18425,"date":"2018-04-18T18:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=18425"},"modified":"2018-04-18T18:50:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:50:05","slug":"drama-as-suspended-senator-invades-chamber-with-thugs-mace-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=18425","title":{"rendered":"Drama, As Suspended Senator Invades Chamber With Thugs, Mace Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=18432\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18432\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/mace.png\" alt=\"mace\" width=\"120\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/mace.png 120w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/mace-99x300.png 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a mild drama at the senate on Wednesday after Ovie Omo-Agege, suspended senator from Delta state, stormed the senate with suspected thugs, carting away the mace.<\/p>\n<p>He was said to have sneaked in through one of the glass barricades within the national assembly before the mace was seized with the support of the men who accompanied him.<\/p>\n<p>Security operatives ran to the senator and the \u201cthugs\u201d to get hold of the mace but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>There is a serious uproar within the national assembly at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the sitting has commenced, Ike Ekweremadu, depute senate president, raised an alarm that some persons had invaded the senate.<\/p>\n<p>The light also went off amid the confusion but was restored shortly after<\/p>\n<p>Security operatives then ran towards where the mace was kept but the senator and those he had came with had already lifted the instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the uproar, they overpowered the national assembly security and ran outside into waiting vehicles numbering three, including two jeeps.<\/p>\n<p>They immediately drove away and were said to have left through the gate behind the national assembly<\/p>\n<p>It is still unclear how the senator made his way into the chambers despite being suspended but The Cable learnt he was permitted entrance by the seargent-at-arms at the entrance door.<\/p>\n<p>The Cable also learnt that the clerk of the national assembly has summoned the divisional police officer to explain how the senator made his way into the chambers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a mild drama at the senate on Wednesday after Ovie Omo-Agege, suspended senator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-view-point"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">News Digest<\/a>","tag_info":"News Digest","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18434,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425\/revisions\/18434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}