Bomb Scare at the National Assembly

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Peace at the National Assembly was temporarily interrupted Tuesday as barely 24 hours after the Nyanya bomb blast that killed 75 persons in Abuja, rumours of a possible blast within the precinct of the Assembly sent staff scampering for safety. 

It was said that a bomb was planted at the Extension Wing of the Assembly.

This compelled most of the staff and other workers in the Assembly complex to abandon their offices and close early from work.

Some of the workers who spoke to reporters claimed that there was an order that they should vacate the complex for security reasons.

Following the news of the bomb blast, the commercial banks operating within the complex closed shop at about 1.30pm claiming that there was an order that they should vacate the complex.

Getting clarifications from the civil servants proved abortive as most of them declared that they were on their way home.

The story became rife at about 12noon that there was a bomb planted in the complex and an order from an unidentified source said that all commercial food vendors should vacate the complex immediately.

However, a senior security aide to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said “there was no instruction to that effect that they should vacate the complex,” adding “It is all rumour and you know our staff here how they behave, they just want to go home, it is unfortunate.”