Minority Leader Impeachment: Free For All Fight In Gombe Assembly, Mace Stolen

There was a free-for-all fighting amongst the lawmakers in the Gombe State House of Assembly, when moves were made to remove the Minority Leader, Ahmed Usman Haruna, representing Gombe North State Constituency, leading to the disappearance the mace, which is the Assembly’s symbol of authority.

Information had it that the drama started when one of those against his removal overpowered the sergeant-at-arm of the House and that the police could not stop the lawmaker from making away with the mace.

It was learnt that police officers’ gunshots fired at the car carrying the mace were not enough to stop the aggrieved lawmakers from running away with the mace.

The Speaker of the troubled House, Hon. Abubakar Nasiru Nono, declined comments.