Police Foil Attempts To Raze Ekiti Assembly Complex

Police officers in Ekiti State prevented an attack on the state House of Assembly on Friday.

Sources disclosed that some men allegedly scaled the fence of the Assembly at about 4am in a bid to burn it down but some operatives of the police Rapid Response Squad were on duty at the scene.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti State Command, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the Friday attempted attack, said hoodlums numbering 10, carrying two 25-litre kegs of petrol, had allegedly arrived the Assembly around 4am and made efforts to set it ablaze.

Abutu said, “I can confirm to you that the hoodlums carrying two kegs filled with petrol and also armed with cutlasses and other weapons came to burn down the Assembly at the wee hours of today (Friday).

“They thought that police, deployed to the Assembly since Wednesday had left the place, because our patrol vehicles had been withdrawn from the two gates. They thought the place was no longer under security cover. They came through a section of the complex, but they were resisted”.

“The operatives of the RRS gave them a hot chase into the bush and recovered two kegs filled with petrol from them, among other dangerous exhibits. We want to warn our people not to turn the Assembly into a theatre of war”.