A High Court in Lagos has ordered the remand of three State House of Assembly employees for allegedly attacking officials from the Department of State Services (DSS).
Judge Daniel Osiagor ordered the remand of Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle, and Fatimoh Adetola while they await their arraignment on Wednesday.
The DSS has taken the three workers to court, charging them with offences related to the alleged assault on the agency’s personnel while they were performing their official responsibilities without valid justification.
The secret police have accused the workers of cyberstalking, recording, and disseminating misleading information on social media to disrupt public order within the nation. The DSS alleges that the trio engaged in “willful misdirection of electronic messages to social media to embarrass its officials” on duty at the assembly complex on February 17.
Videos circulated on social media indicating that DSS agents had entered the Lagos assembly and prevented the lawmakers from conducting a plenary session. In one of the videos, DSS operatives were seen in a physical confrontation with the state’s lawmakers—a situation that stirred varied public reactions.
It later became clear that the DSS had been officially invited to the assembly complex by the acting clerk to help maintain order due to intelligence suggesting that Mudashiru Obasa, the ousted speaker, intended to return to office on February 18—a move that the house believed could pose a security threat.
The Lagos assembly has been in the news following Obasa’s removal as speaker on January 13 while he was abroad and the election of Mojisola Meranda as the new speaker.
