Ekiti Assembly shut down indefinitely
Speaking to newsmen on Thursday, Hon. Oluwawole said the shutting down became necessary because two units of heavily armed riot-policemen stormed the premises on Wednesday without an official request.
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The speaker said members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Assembly were the brains behind the alleged strange Police deployment.
He said the Police were acting on a letter forged by the three APC members using the name of the Clerk, Tola Esan, and addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Bello Ahmed, calling for deployment.
Oluwawole said the Assembly had petitioned the CP to raise allegation of forgery against Aribisogan, Akinniyi and Alagbada.
He said: “This is strange in democracy, for lawmakers to wake up and see unauthorised Police deployment in the legislative arm of government.
“On Wednesday at about 9pm, Police authority deployed two detachments of heavily armed policemen to the premises of the Assembly. This came to us as a shock because we are in a recess and such action was unwarranted.
“Before now, we had it on good authority that Police were planning to provide cover for the three defecting lawmakers to perpetrate violence in the Assembly and cause confusion and also to endanger the lives of our staff.
“As we speak, the lives of our people are no longer safe, because the Police and APC thugs have laid siege to Ekiti Assembly and under this circumstance, our staff are no longer safe and we declare indefinite closure of the Assembly pending the time security can be guaranteed.
“We have not recovered from the harassment and abduction of our members by Police during the July 14 election. But let me say expressly that such strange police deployment was unsolicited, unwarranted and ultra vires,” stated Hon. Oluwawole.
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