Police arrest suspected thugs, recover stolen mace under bridge
The hoodlums who invaded the Nigerian Senate to steal its Mace, have been arrested.
The arrested criminals were yesterday led into the chambers of the National Assembly allegedly by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, and forcefully escaped with the Mace, which is the symbol of authority of the nation’s legislature.
Omo-Agege had denied any involvement with the chaos that occurred at the chamber.
Police say the mace was recovered under the flyover before Abuja city gate where it was abandoned.
The Deputy police spokesperson, SP Adeniran Aremu, said in a statement that “the police teams engaged in massive raids of identified criminal spots/flashpoints, stop and search operations, visibility and confidence-building patrols, intelligence gathering which forced the suspected miscreants to abandon the Mace at a point under the flyover before the City Gate, where a patriotic passerby saw it and alerted the police.”
