Mr. Lawan said he has reported from the SSS that there has been an influx of unknown persons into the National Assembly, NASS complex for which quick action must be taken.
“As principal officers of the National Assembly (NASS), or let me say in the Senate in this respect, our responsibility and obligation is to ensure that our senators, members of the House of Representatives, workers of the National Assembly, our visitors and indeed anyone who has a lawful business to do in this National Assembly are safe,” the statement read.
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“With the heightening insecurity in the country, the time has come for this National Assembly to be properly secured for members of the National Assembly to carry out their legislative and other functions, under a very safe atmosphere.”
Mr Lawan pledged that whatever move would be taken to improve security in the National Assembly would not be aimed at barring people with legitimate business in the complex.
He said those who are coming for protests won’t be denied their democratic rights either.
Nonetheless, he added, efforts would be made to ensure the environment is secured with “necessary security gadgets and technologies to ensure that our parliament is like other parliaments in other clime where you have no business in the parliament, you cannot go in and when you have a business on the first floor, you can only go to the first floor. You can’t go to any other floor.”
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“From the gate, people who shouldn’t be here at all, find themselves in. And then people come in, moving from one office to another, looking for nothing because they have no appointment with anyone. Yet, they pass through all the security systems that we have in place.
“Even our chamber. When we close from the chamber, you see a line-up of people. You wonder how these people have come in and what is their business there.
“We don’t want to wait until something happened. This kind of discussion had taken place in the past. This is the ninth Senate, we want to do it differently.
“We believe now we have to work together if it means the agencies talking to their people who are supposed to work here, they should do so because truly, we are under ‘invasion’. Anytime you come to the National Assembly, it’s full like a market with all manners of people,” senator Ahmed Lawan said.
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