The Edo State
government has called on the police to ensure more proactive action and
save the state from threats of explosion attacks and criminal vices,
Anslem Ojezua, the state commissioner of information and orientation,
said in a statement yesterday.

According to Mr.
Ojezua, “The police must simply be more proactive and call a dog by its
name and treat it as such. The Inspector General of Police must fulfil
his statutory obligations to the people of Edo State by initiating,
without further delay, full criminal investigations into all these acts
of criminality that have become so notorious.”

He however also
alleged that some members of the Edo State House of Assembly from the
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) – Blessing Agbebaku and Frank Okiye
specifically – previously brought in dangerous and offensive weapons,
including battle axes and tear gas, which they freely used against
their colleagues.