The former governor of Edo State and senator representing Edo North district, Adams Oshiomhole, had accused members of the 9th Senate and House of Representatives of looting television sets, carpets, and chairs in the assembly.
A non-governmental organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on members of the 9th National Assembly to immediately return all things they reportedly looted in the assembly.
The former governor of Edo State and senator representing Edo North district, Adams Oshiomhole, had accused members of the 9th Senate and House of Representatives of looting television sets, carpets, and chairs in the assembly.
Oshiomhole, who spoke while featuring on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, decried the level of vandalism by the former lawmakers.
The former governor regretted that the former lawmakers looted those properties in the presence of Nigerian security agents, and yet no one stopped them.
Oshiomhole had said, “Let me tell you one thing the National Assembly is not talking about and I don’t know why those who have to speak are not speaking about it.
“I was shocked by the level of vandalisation of properties of the National Assembly. Televisions were carted away, carpets were carted away, senators’ chairs were carted away. I had to use my money and someone also decided to deliver me a printer, to give me a laptop to use in my office. I had to buy the carpet and pay the cost of fixing it. I had to pay some young people to clean the office to restore the new carpet. I had to pay to repaint my office. I will produce the receipt.
“I can’t understand why and how a senate that sat on Sunday before we were inaugurated on the following Tuesday, and that level of vandalisation took place, and we have hundreds of security men and women in the National Assembly. I can never understand what happened. You find holes on the wall, even in the offices of principal officers of the senate, who I won’t get to mention."
“People told me there’s also the same level of vandalisation in the House Representatives,” Oshiomhole stated.
But reacting to the former governor's revelation, SERAP urged the affected lawmakers to return the looted items.
SERAP wrote in a tweet posted on its official Twitter handle, "We urge senators and House of Representatives' members of the 9th National Assembly to immediately return television sets, carpets, and chairs looted by them, as alleged by Senator Adams Oshiomhole (APC Edo North)."