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The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly and 14 other All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers escaped death after over one hundred armed mobile policemen deployed from Abuja to the state, took over the premises of the state House of Assembly. The policemen who stormed the Assembly complex at about 11am started assaulting the staff of the Assembly in their offices, ordering them out of the premises. The police came to carry out a court order which barred four members of the assembly from entering the government house. |
