The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested three Lagos State House of Assembly staff members who allegedly assaulted its officers on the premises of the legislative complex last Monday.
Recall that pandemonium broke out earlier in the week in the Assembly when it was rumored that the embattled Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, would be reinstalled.
Setting the record straight on why its officers were mobilised to the assembly complex, the state service explained that the lawmakers had invited them to solidify security system of the assembly.
The assembly staff reportedly attacked some DSS officers who were invited by the Assembly leadership to secure the facility.
DSS source said that “after extensive analysis of CCTV footage, we were able to clearly identify three of the suspects.”
“The suspects, Ibrahim Olanrewaju Abdulkareem, a photographer and two others attached to the Assembly’s Sergeant at Arms, Adetu Adekunle Samsudeen and Adetola Oluwatosin Fatimoh, a lady, were consequently tracked and arrested during the week in different parts of Lagos.”
The trio have since confessed to the crime and would soon be arraigned, the source said.
Recall that, the Lagos Assembly had in a leaked memo dated 14th February, 2025 and addressed to the DSS Director in the State, and Heads of other Security Agencies in Lagos State, invited the Security Agencies in Lagos to help beef up security on the premises of the Assembly.
There were credible pieces of information to the effect that, Obasa had planned to forcefully reinstate himself on February 18, 2025.
Accordingly, the Assembly management held that the development posed “a potential security threat” to it and its members.
