The crisis in the Edo State local government councils took a different dimension yesterday whereby several people were injured as gunmen reportedly invaded the Uhunmwode Local Government Council headquarters in Egor.
This followed reports of impeachment of the chairmen of Uhunmwode and Orhionmwon local government councils by the elected councillors.
The chairman of the council, Kenneth Adodo, alleged that the people involved in the shooting were policemen from the Edo State Government House, while his Owan East counterpart, Aminu Okodo-Kadiri, maintained that his purported impeachment and that of his Vice, Clement Ojebuovbo was unconstitutional and illegal.
Okodo stressed that the councillors failed to establish a seven-member investigative panel, noting that the mace used during the impeachment was not the official mace of the Owan East Local Government Council.
The latest incident comes weeks after the Edo State House of Assembly granted the request of the state Governor, Monday Okpebholo, and passed a resolution suspending all chairmen and vice chairmen of the 18 local government councils of the state for two months over the refusal of the chairmen to submit financial records of their local government to the state government.
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