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Commonwealth doctors condemn siege on National Assembly

National Assembly Complex

The President of the Commonwealth Medical Association, Dr Osahon Enabulele has called on the Presidency and the leadership of the National Assembly to urgently institute a full scale, scrupulous and open/public inquisition to unearth Monday’s invasion of the National Assembly Abuja.

He said all those who conspired to conceptualize, plan, support and execute the assault on the legislative arm of government should and must be brought to book.
Addressing reporters in Benin City, Edo state, he said the violent occupation and invasion of Nigeria’s National Assembly/Legislative arm of government on Monday, the 7th of August, 2018, by operators of Nigeria’s State Security Service and the Nigerian Police Force, was an “unwarranted and violent assault on Nigeria’s democracy and the globally enshrined principle of separation of powers”.
He, however, commended the patriotic action taken by the Ag. President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo SAN, adding, ” Indeed, it is a grave mortal sin against the Nigerian people that has cast a very dark pall on Nigeria’s democracy and further eroded the people’s confidence in the ability of Nigeria’s current political class and elected leaders to deliver to them the long expected dividends of democracy”.
According to him, “it will be an understatement to state that violent and reckless acts such as this, if not checked on a permanent basis, can potentially worsen the troubling spectre of insecurity in Nigeria with its manifold implications on all sectors of the Nigerian economy, including the health sector”.
Additionally, he said, the full weight of the law must be brought to bear on all those found to be directly or remotely connected with the act.

The physician said the challenging socio-economic climate and contradictions in the Nigerian state, notwithstanding, Nigerians should see the present state of the country as very historic and challenging.

” We should courageously rise above ethnic, regional or political prejudices, to patriotically defend Nigeria’s hard won democracy, the rule of law, altruistic leadership and good governance, all of which are essential towards guaranteeing their security, welfare, health and socio-economic well-being”.

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