The Ekiti State House of Assembly today said that four of its members are
missing following alleged invasion of the Assembly complex on Friday evening by
operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS).
The Speaker of the Assembly, Kola Oluwawole, who addressed newsmen in Ado Ekiti
on Saturday, said the members of the Assembly were in their various duty posts in
the house when the operatives of the DSS invaded the complex.
Oluwawole said: "Not minding that various committees of the House were meeting,
more than 10 DSS men who were armed to the teeth invaded the Assembly Complex,
shooting sporadically into the air, thereby causing panic among members and staff of
the House of Assembly, who had to scamper for safety.
"At the end of the commotion created by this barbaric act, we discovered that four of
our members could not be found.
"It was only this morning that we were able to establish that Hon Afolabi Akanni,
representing Efon Constituency was abducted and taken to Abuja. Whereabouts of
three other members is still unknown as we speak, and reasons for the invasion and
abduction of our members are not known."
Ado-Ekiti- Ekiti State House of Assembly yesterday raised the alarm over the invasion
of the Assembly complex by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS)
and abduction of some of its members.
According to Oluwawole, the DSS operatives had stormed the Assembly complex on
Friday evening, shot into the air, sending staff and members into pandemonium.
The speaker, who was joined by 13 other members of the House for the press briefing
claimed that the DSS operatives were from Abuja, when asked if he had sought to
clarify the incident with the Ekiti command of the service, stating that that was what
they learnt when they sought to know what was going on.
The House accused President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress
(APC) of being behind the alleged invasion, saying "we got it on good authority that
the script now being acted by the DSS is part of the APC and President Buhari’s
clandestine plot to cripple the Ekiti State government by arresting and detaining top
functionaries of the government."
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