The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Frank Okiye,
has rejected the move by the House of Representatives to shut it down, if after
seven days, Governor Godwin Obaseki failed to issue a new proclamation to
reconstitute it.
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Okiye objected to the House move in a statement in Benin,
saying a court order has already restrained the police, the DSS and the APC
from interfering in the affairs of the house.
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Read the full statement below:
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It has come to our knowledge that the Ad-hoc Committee of
the House of Representatives investigating issues surrounding the inauguration
of the Edo State House of Assembly has recommended that the Inspector General
of Police (IGP) and Department of State Services (DSS) should seal up the
Assembly.
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Considering what we came to know in the course of this
process, the recommendation of the Ad-Hoc committee does not come to us as a
surprise.
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For example, the chattered plane marked 5N FCT, which brought
the committee members to Benin City, was paid for by the National Chairman of
All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who is a major party
in the disagreement.
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Also, the younger brother to the National Chairman, Seid
Oshiomhole, in a recent leaked audio conversation, revealed the underhand
dealings in Abuja regarding the matter.
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He stated that Oshiomhole and his proxies have been having
meetings with the committee members and other actors in the issue in Abuja and
dolling out money to ensure the issue goes in their favour.
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With all these, it was clear that the ad-hoc committee was
up to no good. Their report was always going to be biased.
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Moreover, we want to draw the attention of the general
public and the Police to a subsisting court order restraining the Police,
headed by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; the National Working
Committee of the APC; the DSS and their agents, from interfering in the affairs
of the Assembly, as the House has been going about its activities peacefully
and without rancour.
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The National Assembly must take note that they are expected
to act as agents of peace and not merchants of crisis.
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Edo State has always been peaceful and any attempt for them
to carry out this order will certainly disrupt the peace that is currently
being enjoyed in the state.
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In a time like this in which the nation is being engulfed in
one form of violence or the other, it is unfortunate that the House of
Representatives is seen to be promoting violence and exacerbating the tension
in the country.
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Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly
