BY Emmanuel Aziken
MR. Evans Bipi, who emerged as factional Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, following the crisis that engulfed the legislative House last July, has been ordered to stop parading himself as Speaker.

The order, given by an Ahoada High Court, Rivers State, was upon an interim injunction of the court, following a motion filed by Mr. Otelemaba Amachree, Speaker of the Group of 27 legislators and his deputy, Mr. Leyii Kwanee, requesting for the maintenance of the undisputed position existing in the House, prior to the crisis that engulfed the House on July 9, 2013.

The order granted by Justice C.N. Wali last Monday, also stopped Bipi from further parading himself as Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, calling himself or acknowledging himself as Speaker of the House, allowing himself to be so addressed or writing to anyone in the capacity of Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly.
The order also prohibited Bipi from convening a meeting of the House either in plenary or in a committee of the whole and from obstructing the applicants in their recognized roles as Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly.