Pandemonium Rocks Kano Assembly As Police Seal Complex Over Move To Impeach Speaker

Reports emanating from Kano on Monday morning is that the police have taken over the State Assembly Complex.

This is in connection to the recent move to impeach the Speaker of the House, Alhaji Abdullahi Yusuf Ata by the Members of Kano State House of Assembly.

It was gathered that as at Sunday night, 21 lawmakers had duly signed in support of the speaker’s impeachment.

“We have already impeached the principal officers by having 21 lawmakers signed for their impeachment and we are needing only six members to make the requirement of 2/3 to impeach the speaker”, a lawmaker told Daily Trust.

“The reasons are many but the major one is incompetency. The speaker has completely localised the house.

“We cannot sit until after 2pm and even at that things are not moving as expected. We cannot just continue like that because we are representing our constituents,” the lawmaker added.

Confirming the presence of heavily arm police men in the assembly complex, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Magaji Musa Majia said the police deployed their men in order to quell any foreseeable outbreak of law and order.

“We deployed our men to the Assembly to ensure that nobody breaks law and order,” Majia said.

“We need peace in the state and therefore we will not allow anybody to temper with existing peace and harmony being enjoyed by the people in the state,” he added.