Scores of protesting youths under the aegis of
Occupy National Assembly, on Tuesday, besieged the premises of the federal
parliament and demanded the immediate resignation of the Senate President,
Bukola Saraki.
The youths
made up of various Civil Society Organisations and students, were also
demanding that the federal lawmakers should immediately revisit the grey areas
identified in the 2016 budget by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Apart from
this, they asked 36 senators who had so far collected their own exotic jeeps to
return them immediately or face the wrath of Nigerians.
The
protesters marched from the Unity Fountain within the Central Area of the city
to the National Assembly, a journey of about two kilometers and forced their
way to the main gate, defiling all security network mounted by regular and riot
police officers.
The youths
forced the main gate closed thereby preventing staff, lawmakers and visitors
from either entering or leaving the premises.
The protesters,
armed with placards containing various inscriptions, vowed to seal off the
federal parliament for the initial three days to see whether their demands
would be met.
They also
said they would resume a permanent protest that would paralyse all activities
in the National Assembly until all their demands were fully met.
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