Senator looses phone during meeting

[gogannaka]

THEY came to discuss the state of education in the country, and had a major sponsor in the US funded organisation, the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Yet, last week's meeting by the Committees on Education from the Senate and House of Representatives, ended in recriminations and body search.

Reason: half way into the programme, when the honourable men and women and their guests were going about lunch, the atmosphere at the venue changed when Mr Chris Asoluka, a lawmaker and one of the guest speakers at the programme, announced that his expensive phone had disappeared on the table where he left it before he went to serve himself.

This threw the hall into commotion, but more was to come. When the victim dialed the number, it rang for a while before it was apparently switched off.

Asoluka did not hide his feelings when he promised to pay a ransom to whoever could produce the phone, but this did not yield any result. Subsequent efforts by the organisers of the programme to locate the phone were abortive, as they all searched in vain all the nooks and crannies of the venue.

One of the Senators present subsequently called the policemen at the hotel to conduct a search on everybody at the venue. This was thoroughly done, including on the bodies of the national assembly members. All the bags and wallets in the hall were all searched. But this did not yield anything.

Anger was subsequently directed at the management of the hotel for not installing CCTV Camera in their hall.

Incidentally, another recent case of stolen phones involving some Nigerian dignitaries on a trip to China was resolved when the Chinese hosts replayed a CCTV recording of the theft - in which a high placed personality was reported to have been caught on camera stealing the phone of his colleague.

Before the incident, participants at the forum, organised by NDI and Coalition for Change, has spent quality time discussing the state of the educational sector and how to find a long lasting solution to the problems facing the sector.

Some of the Senators and members of the House present at the programme are: Joy Emordi, Adamu Aliero, Jubril Aminu, Mohammed Ahmed, Wilson Oke, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, Tawar Wada, Omar Hambagda, Ahmed Lawan, Dozie Madubuchi, Tony Franca Mbah, Pauline Ogwakhadembhe, George O. Jolaoye; Kayode Idowu, Bashiru Bolarinwa, Gabriel Ekpishoko, Farouk Lawan, Dr. Ini Udoka and Idris Isah.
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Who do you think took it?

[HUSNAA]

Well u answered that anyway.
A high placed personality (or a high placed waiter/ waitress). I think it is  disgraceful  that ppl had to be searched.