By Simon Ebegbulem
BENIN- Dissatisfied by the refusal of a magistrate’s court in Benin to grant bail to the embattled chairman of the Edo State Task Force on Demolition of Illegal Structures, Major Lawrence Loye (rtd), a group, Community Assistance and Cooperative Outreach, CACO, said it had assembled a team of lawyers to secure bail and enforce his fundamental rights.

It will be recalled that Governor Adams Oshiom-hole had ordered the arrest and prosecution of Loye, after he was accused of demo-lishing property belonging to Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia and Senator Rowland Owie.

Loye appeared before the magistrate’s court in Benin last week, but was denied bail. However, counsel to CACO, Chief Osaheni Uzamere, said the group will go to court to enforce his (Loye) fundamen-tal rights.

He said: “We are aware that he has been taken to the magistrate’s court, which remanded him in prison.”