Like 4 Tweet 16 Nigeria: Fracas in Rivers House of Assembly Published on July 9, 2013 by · 2 Comments The sitting of Nigeria’s Rivers State House of Assembly was disrupted this morning
when hoodlums and some members attacked the principal officers of the house, with
an assortment of weapons. The house which
adjourned sine die for
some weeks now, in
the wake of the
political crisis between
Governor Rotimi Amaechi and
President Goodluck
Jonathan’s pointsmen
in the state, reopened
this morning at about
9.45 a.m. Proceedings have
barely started when
some members, said
to belong to the G5
minority group, arrived with some hoodlums and started beating up the majority leader of the house, Chidi
Lloyd with sticks, microphone stands and any object that could serve as cudgels. The
Speaker of the house, Otelemaba Amachree was similarly attacked and the mace
broken.