Edo youths have vowed to embark on a peaceful protest march to the State Police headquarters unless the Police authorities prosecute, within seven days, the lawmakers fingered in the use of dangerous weapons on their colleagues in the recent Assembly fracas..

The youths, under the aegis, Edo League of Young Professionals in a statement signed by its Chairman Dr. Osime Iruobe and Secretary Simon Eguaikhide, an architect said as a peaceful organization made up of professionals and responsible youths, it would embark on the peaceful protest to force the police to act on the incident.

“We have watched with consternation the inaction of the police on the recent crisis in the House of Assembly where men who are supposed to be our representatives threw caution to the wind and from their suits and agbada brought out canisters of tear gas and axe which they used on their colleagues in the House.

“The incident, as shown on television, was not only an embarrassment to all well-meaning Edo people, but to the electorate who supposedly elected these people into the Assembly.

“There is no doubt that if the democratic tenet of one man, one vote had been the decider in the emergence of these lawmakers, they would not have resorted to area boy tactics over an attempt to change the leadership of the House.

“In all democracies the world-over, Speakers of Houses of Assemblies are changed are no axes and teargas and even pistols as was recorded on television are used.

“Our lawmakers, and especially the impeached Speaker, Zakawanu Garuba, should know that he was only ‘primus inter pares’, which translated means ‘first among equals’. He did not ask the electorate to vote for him as Speaker, he only asked for votes into the House as a lawmaker. That he emerged the Speaker was only by the grace of his colleagues and when his colleagues felt they have had enough of him, he should have gracefully accepted it in good faith.

“We demand, as responsible Edo natives and professionals, that the Police should take action now before other would-be lawmakers think this is the acceptable and normal way to act in the hallowed chambers of the State Assembly.”