The
Nasarawa Police Command, Tuesday, arrested the Nasarawa State Attorney General
and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Innocent Lagi, for scaling the fence of the State House of
Assembly to serve a court order.
Lagi
was at the Assembly to serve the officials with a court injunction restraining
the House from summoning the chairman of
Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission, NASIEC, and his commissioners
to appear before them.
However,
the reported
that he was not allowed to enter the premises by the security officers.
The
Attorney-General, after being denied access to the complex, decided to jump
over the fence, which prompted the legislators to order security officials to
arrest him.
It
was also reported that before Lagi arrived at the Assembly complex, the
Chairman of the commission, Dr. Abdullahi Modibo, and five other commissioners
had already responded to questions raised by members on the conduct of the
exercise.
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