Mace snatching: APC calls for Omo-Ageges prosecution
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the all progressives congress apc has condemned in totality wednesdays attack on the senate and the snatching on the mace of the senate1 this is even as it has called on all security agencies totake all necessary actions to recover the stolen mace and ensure that the perpetrators and their sponsors are brought to justice1 in a statemnet issued by mallam bolaji abdullahi national publicity secretary of the apc the party said that the attack ammounted to an attack on the nations democracy1 the attention of the all progressives congress apc has been drawn to the invasion of the nigerian senate by suspected thugs who disrupted wednesdays plenary and made away with the mace1 the apc hereby condemns this action and views it as an attack on our democracy and a desecration of the hallowed institution of the national assembly1 we therefore call on security agencies to take all necessary actions to recover the stolen mace and ensure that the perpetrators and their sponsors are brought to justice1 meanwhile the nigerian police has arrested senator ovie omo agege for leading the hoodlums into the senate chamber during plenary to snatch the mace which is the symbol of authority of the upper legislative chamber1