NATIONAL: Physically-challenged persons besiege National Assembly Complex to protest neglect

SCORES of physically challenged persons from the Niger Delta region reportedly went on the rampage at the National Assembly, today.

They besieged the National Assembly Complex in Abuja on Thursday morning to protest what they termed neglect by their representatives in the National Assembly.

According to Punch newspaper,  the physically challenged persons forced themselves inside the National Assembly Complex despite resistance by security operatives at the NASS gate.

Security aides of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, hurriedly moved away his official vehicles parked at the entrance of the Senate new wing.

The spokesperson for the physically challenged persons, Amos Etim, said that they arrived at the National Assembly from the various states of Niger Delta to demand their rights from their representatives.

They claimed that they were being denied their rights despite being educated.

One of them was said to have fainted  protest in the heat of the protest and his colleagues eventually revived him after initial panic caused by the development.