BY SIMON EBEGBULEM

BENIN— SPEAKER of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Uyi Igbe, yesterday, declared that the House was proud of the infrastructure development Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s administration has put in place in the three senatorial districts of the state.

This comes as the Majority Leader of the House, Mr. Philip Shuaibu, recounted how the media saved his life at Kuje prison in Abuja, during the military era, and urged the National Assembly to make laws to take care of the welfare of journalists and protection of the media in the country.

Speaker Igbe, who spoke at the House of Assembly quarters, when the Majority Leader, Shuaibu, had a breakfast session with journalists, said the House had in the past five years, given support to the executive due to its belief that Oshiomhole was capable of managing the resources of the state prudently.

“We were elected to ensure development for our people and I am glad to say that we have been doing that so far and we are satisfied with the developmental stride of the governor,” he said.

Also speaking, Shuaibu, who maintained that without the media, there would be no democracy in Nigeria, recalled that “when some of us were arrested by the military when I was a students’ union leader, it was a journalist that found out that we were kept in Kuje prisons and wrote the story. That was why some of us are still alive today.

“So that is why I want to appeal to the National Assembly to make a law that will not only enhance the welfare of journalists but also protect them in their jobs.”