Hehehehe....Senator Magnus Abe has stated that lawmakers who scaled the gate during the invasion of the National Assembly complex by the police last Thursday, should be conferred with the prestigious national award.
He said this while speaking with newsmen at the grand finale of the Yoruba Week, 2014 and launch of the N500 million Yoruba House, held in Port Harcourt, on Saturday.
Abe, who head the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), said there was nothing wrong in the action of the lawmakers.
He noted that what they did was in the defence of the independence of the legislature.
“People were talking about lawmakers who scaled the fence. I want to say that those lawmakers are the true defenders of the independence of the legislature. They should be given national awards for what they did,” he said.
Abe said they were right in scaling the gate in order to gain entry into the National Assembly complex to be able to perform their duty as the representatives of the Nigerian people.
According to him, “If they have to scale the fence, they will scale it and they did so (that) the Nigerian people could meet to discuss the problems of Nigeria. How can anybody say they have not acted honourably?
“In the words of Barry Goldwater, the American politician, and I quote, ‘moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue and extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice.”
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