The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Yusuff Lasun, on Thursday, threw caution to the wind, when he openly ordered his security aides to assault Journalists, and, while he also engaged a female journalist in physical force, pushing her to the floor.
The journalists had converged on the House of Representatives wings, to cover a budget defence, involving the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Raji Fashola. Lasun, who was on his way to the hall for the budget defence, physically began to shove people out of his way from the corridor that was overflowing with people who had come for the hearing.
Seeing what the Deputy Speaker was doing, his security aide pushed the female journalist to the floor. The journalist who frowned at the action of the security detail, wanted to know why she was so treated, but was shocked by the response of the Deputy Speaker who was right behind the orderly, even as he ordered that the lady be pushed again.
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“You are asking why he pushed you, come here, come, come here let him push you again”, the terrific deputy Speaker roared. As if that was not enough, Lasun also advanced towards the direction of the journalist and her colleagues, yelling that all of them should “move away from the road.”
We gathered that, the frail female journalist who was scared of the next action of Lasun and his security details, ran for her dear life, even as other journalists scampered, amid commotion caused by the deputy speaker’s actions.Narrating her ordeal to the leadership of the House of Reps Press Corp, the victim, Mrs. Lizzy Chirkpi, Senior Correspondent of Hallow Mace Magazine, described as
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“terrible and terrific encounter,”
the action of the deputy Speaker.Chirkpi said the incessant and unwarranted assaults on journalists by those whom she described as “high and mighty” in the society, must be condemned, in its entirety.
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