The Senate on Thursday voted to consider a motion on the arrest and breach of the fundamental rights of supporters of the Action Congress of Nigeria barred from entering Abuja by the police on Wednesday.Members of the Osun State chapter of the ACN were arrested on their way to Abuja on Tuesday and detained till Wednesday by the police in Kogi State.Senator Sola Adeyeye from Osun State rose on Order 42 of the Standing Rules of the Senate relating to matters of urgent national importance, urging the Senate to consider at another plenary the barring of ACN supportersfrom coming into Abuja.He said the supporters were on their way to Abuja given that they had the right to do so as guaranteed by the constitution, but were not allowed free movement into the city of Abuja.After presenting his case, senators, through a voice vote, were unanimous in their decision to take the motion on Tuesday.The supporters were said to be on their way to Abuja to attend the trial of the former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.The Osun State Vice-Chairman of the party, Chief Ishola Oyewumi, in Lokoja on Thursday, said their ordeal started at about 6:41pm on Tuesday when the Osun Government coaster bus in which they were travelling was accosted by policemen at Jamata village, near the River Niger Bridge.He said the policemen almost 10 in number immediately ordered all the occupants of the bus to disembark for identification and thorough checking.He said, All of us promptly complied but nothing incriminating was found in the bus with number plate OSGH 192.He said they were surprised when the police insisted that they could not proceed on their trip, ordering them to go back to Osun.The party leader said before they could offer further explanation, the police ordered everybody back into the bus and directed the driver to return them to their take-off point.He said the policemen escorted the bus to a point at Kabba junction before turning back.Oyewumi said they decided to turn back and continue with the journey only for them to run into the same policemen at Jamata village.He said the policemen were infuriated by that action and immediately arrested them.Among those detained were the state auditor of the party, Mrs. Funke Ogundele, Welfare Officer, Mr. John Olayemi and the state ACN youth leader, Mr Rasheed AdenijiOthers are Assistant secretary, Mr. Omolaoye Akintola, Assistant Public Relations Officer, Mr. Samson Oyebode, Assistant Financial Secretary, Mr. Bakare Idera, among others.Oyeumi said he and his colleagues and were made to sleep in the open without food and water until about 2pm on Wednesday when they were released to the Kogi Chairman of the party, Alhaji Haddy Ametuo.
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