BENIN CITY—THE Edo Unity League, a socio cultural organisation in Edo State yesterday threatened to protest to Abuja to make the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar to compel the four suspended members of the state House of Assembly to obey the court order restraining them from entering the Assembly premises.

EDO ASSEMBLY CRISIS—Police at the Edo State House of Assembly as the crisis in the House continued, yesterday. Photo: Barnabas Uzosike.

The group in a statement by its Vice Chairman, Momodu Obadan, it regretted that “in the last one month of commotion-foisted Assembly complex, Edo State Governor has been monumentally distracted from giving effect to desirable public services that are germane to the socio-economic and political well-being of our dear state.

“We are ready to mobilise en mass to the office of the IGP in Abuja to prevail on him to compel the lawmakers to respect the court’s order, if the four lawmakers refused to comply within two weeks after our publication”

According to the statement, “We are convinced beyond reasonable doubts that the seeming lackadaisical attitude of the Inspector General of Police to act as swiftly as anticipated by our legal system in restoring order to the House of Assembly complex for good legislative businesses is a grave design to undermine the peace and hospitality pedigree of Edo people.”

“In the spirit of proactive justice, we humbly call on Madam CJN and the Senate President to compel the dramatis personae to respect subsisting court rulings dutifully served on them under the watchful-eyes of electronic media. The attempt by the four Edo lawmakers who initiated the action at the federal High court to mechanize jungle justice by mobilizing armed thugs to the Assembly complex – a building named after Pa. Anthony Enahoro.