Nigeria: Edo Assembly Crisis - Make Peace or We Sack You, Constituents Tell Lawmakers

20 June 2014

The stalemate in the Edo State House of Assembly yesterday drew the attention of a coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the aegis of Development Alliance Platform (DAP), who not only expressed concern over the crisis, but threatened to mobilise the people of the state to sack the lawmakers.

Addressing journalists in Benin City yesterday, the conveners of DAP, Austin Osakue, David Ugoloh and Olu Martins, said the lawmakers had abandoned their constitutional duties of law-making and oversight in their pursuit of partisan political interests. "The recruitment of idle minds to perpetrate violence impeded free movement and brought economic activity to a halt. The situation can escalate into full scale violence if an amicable resolution is not urgently secured," they said, adding that they would intervene in the crisis with a view to resolving it.

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