Although majority of the public have censured the actions
of those lawmakers who scaled the National Assembly gate to gain access last
week, Senator Magnus Abe seems to be one of those who think differently and applauds
their act. He stated that those lawmakers should be conferred with the
prestigious national award. He said this
while speaking at the grand finale of the Yoruba Week, 2014 and launch of the
N500 million Yoruba House, held in Port Harcourt, on Saturday.
Please read him below:
“People were talking about lawmakers who scaled the fence. I want to say that those lawmakers are the true defenders of the independence of the legislature. They should be given national awards for what they did.”
“If they have to scale the fence, they will
scale it and they did so (that) the Nigerian people could meet to discuss the
problems of Nigeria. How can anybody say they have not acted honorably?
“In the words of Barry Goldwater, the American politician,
and I quote, ‘moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue and extremism
in the defense of liberty is no vice.”
~Dailypost
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