That brazen attack on democracy

By Rose Moses

You can describe Wednesday, April 18, 2018 anyhow you like, but it was indeed, a national day of opprobrium. Some would also say it was a national day of mourning. Or how does one describe a day the National Assembly, in broad day light, was under attack.

The incident was enough public disgrace that shocked the country to the marrow, thus relegating to the background the fact that elsewhere outside the country, the nation’s president was tearing Nigerian youths apart, calling them lazy and illiterate lot that just want to live their lives on freebies.

Yes, all of those were simply unimaginable. But at the Senate, democracy was under attack. Nigerians were told that at about 11:30am, Wednesday, some hoodlums, allegedly led by suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege from Delta State, walked into the Senate plenary and…