The National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has written to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, apologizing to him over his alleged harassment by security operatives, who allegedly insisted on searching his car for bombs.
The incident occurred on Monday at the 17th Hotel Kaduna, the venue of an international conference on security and development challenges of pastoralists in West and Central Africa.
The Speaker, who was one of the keynote speakers at the conference, arrived the Hotel at about 9:16 a.m., but soldiers at the gate were alleged to have insisted his cars would only be allowed entry after it is certified free of bombs.
An angry Tambuwal then stormed out of the car and walked the remaining distance to the event venue.
Dasuki, whose office organised the event, ordered a probe of the incident on Tuesday to determine what happened and why the security officials acted the way they did.
Sources said that Dasuki wrote the letter of apology to the Speaker, the same day he constituted the investigative panel. Dasuki was said to have tendered “unreserved apology” and blamed the incident on “exuberance” by the security operatives involved.
“This is to tender an unreserved apology to the Right Honourable Speaker for the exuberance displayed by security personnel detailed at the Hotel Seventeen, Lafia Road, Off Tafawa Balewa Way, Kaduna, during the International Conference on Security and Development Challenges of Pastoralists in West and Central Africa.”
“Mr. Speaker, I wish to state that the action of the security personnel was not directed at your person or office but was just a case of poor discretion. I therefore regret any embarrassment this has caused to you and assure you that the case will be thoroughly investigated and such an incident will not occur again in the future.
“I wish to once again use this medium to express my gratitude to you for your very important contributions to the success of the event. Please, accept, Right Honourable Speaker, the assurances of my highest esteem,” Dasuki had written in the letter.
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