Benin City, the Edo State capital, witnessed another round of violence yesterday when over 50 police personnel invaded the Edo State House of Assembly in a commando fashion.

The law enforcement agents upon entering the premises, beat away Assembly workers doing renovation work at the complex and threatening to shoot the Speaker if he did not leave there.

Led by a female officer, Florence Joseph, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), the invading policemen allegedly teargassed the Speaker, Uyigue Igbe, before threatening to shoot him and the other lawmakers that insisted on supervising the renovation work.

In a show of more brazen bravado, the leader of the police team allegedly disarmed Police Orderlies of all the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers without extending the same treatment to those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers, who had by then raced to the Assembly in a counter group to engage their colleagues.

In his reaction, the impeached Deputy Speaker, Hon. Festus Ebea, said the renovation work was unnecessary and a waste of public funds.

He said as Chairman of the House Assembly Tenders Board Committee, he ought to have been aware that the complex needed any renovation.

But addressing the media, the Assembly committee Chairman on Information, Youth and Sports, Hon. Kabiru Adjoto, put the blame of the police invasion at the doorstep of the PDP, a party he said was resolved to destabilise the state and its House of Assembly.

In the words of Adjoto, “The PDP had threatened yesterday that their members will sit at the Assembly. Last week, the renovation work informed our relocating to the old House of Assembly at the Government House.

The workers were working and more than 50 mobile policemen entered the assembly and beat hell out of the workers.

“All the Assembly staff was ordered to lie down. The question is: who the police are serving. The State Police Commissioner and the AIG in charge of Zone 5 said they don’t know where the policemen that invaded here came from. These policemen were led by one Florence Joseph, an ASP.” “She tear-gassed Mr. Speaker and pointed guns at everybody.

The DCP came in and was helpless. He could not even give his junior officers order to leave. Over the years, PDP has been known for political thuggery. We are going to defend our ground to the last.”

“The last they can do is to kill us. The bloods of martyrs are used to water the tree of freedom. The police have said they will aid the PDP lawmakers to come here to sit. We are warning, not appealing to the IGP. Mr. President should call his men to order. They cannot kill Edo people.

The multiplier effect will be more than what happened in Normandy landing in Germany. Let the police come here on Monday with their rifles. Rifles they were supposed to take to Sambisa Forest to rescue our girls but which they are using them here to intimidate people,” Adjoto said.”

Reiterating Adjoto’s statement, the Speaker, Hon. Uyigue Igbe said that what happened was a clear testimony that the Nigeria Police Force was now working for the PDP in Edo State. Igbe, who explained that the renovation work was necessitated by the destruction of the Assembly by suspended PDP lawmakers weeks ago.

When contacted, Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Foluso Adebanjo disclosed that “The temporary stoppage of work is based on security reports.


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The fg has transformed the police and other security agencies to become the armed wing of the pdp after its failed bid to intimidate Nigerians with bombings and kidnappings.
The fresh air they promised brought unemployment, poverty, insecurity and terror on the masses and the opposition.
I curse the pdp in the name of the Lord our God for bringing terror upon this country and fuelling instability.

vedd: The fg has transformed the police and other security agencies to become the armed wing of the pdp after its failed bid to intimidate Nigerians with bombings and kidnappings.
The fresh air they promised brought unemployment, poverty, insecurity and terror on the masses and the opposition.
I curse the pdp in the name of the Lord our God for bringing terror upon this country and fuelling instability.

Jonathan will regret this rascality I swear.

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