The mace of the Gombe state house of assembly was on Thursday stolen during plenary by unidentified men.
Emerging reports say that the Sergeant-at-arms was over powered and the mace snatched during a sitting as the house made attempt to remove Ahmed Haruna, minority leader of the assembly, Ahmed Haruna, representing Gombe north state constituency.
It will be recalled that a similar incident took place on the floor of the Senate on April 19, when unknown men snatched the Mace of the upper legislative chamber.
The mace was later recovered abandoned at the Abuja City gate.
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