From Ikenna Emeka Okpani

Our reporter gathered that the speaker, Mr. Peremobowie Ebebi and thirteen others were flown in from Abuja with heavy security and taken to the house of assembly for a formal sitting to enable them present the impeachment notice properly to the governor.

Our reporter gathered that at the end of the sitting, the house submitted their request to the state chief judge asking him to commence the investigations of the impeachable offences against the governor.

The assembly also suspended four members of the assembly indefinitely during the sitting. The assembly has a total of twenty-four members. The members suspended are Amakiri Etubo, Warieponwei Dudapha, Oforie William and Ayeluwei Nemibofa who were said to have acted in a way that portrayed the house in bad light. All four were part of those who signed the impeachment notice only to come back to say that they were forced to do so.

The assembly in its resolutions advised the governor to stop pursuing shadows and return to London to face his trial. It said that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was still the acting governor even as it went ahead to reinstate the suspended clerk of the house.

Security men took over the house during the short proceedings and quickly escorted the assembly members away as soon as the sitting ended. The state lawmakers have been away from the state since last Tuesday when they addressed a press conference in Lagos serving the returnee governor with an impeachment notice signed by about seventeen members of the assembly.

However by the weekend, nine of the lawmakers who signed the impeachment notice said they were forced by the EFCC who had lured them to Lagos under the pretence of interrogating them on monies made available to them for constituency projects. The state government had also claimed that the governor has not been served with any impeachment notice whatsoever by the assembly despite the much publicised news briefing in Lagos.

Meanwhile the Ijaw National Congress has alleged that the federal government was doing everything possible to cause violence in Bayelsa state to enable it declare a state of emergency in the state.

In a statement signed by the Publicity secretary, the congress alleged that youths from outside the state have been hired to hold violent demonstrations that will enable the already deployed military men to move in to cause havoc.
“We had earlier alerted the nation to the federal Government’s determination to declare a state of emergency in Bayelsa state, which has so far proved difficult because of the peace that exists in the state despite provocative attempts by the forces of evil to parade the streets of Yenagoa with rented youths from outside the state all initiated by agents provocateur of the federal government”, the statement said. dent can select any police officer of equivalent rank of his choice while CSP Yari is being interrogated.
“The above actions are mainly police routine procedures.”

However Daily Trust investigations revealed that the CSP’s ordeal is linked with the Bayelsa state governor’s return to Nigeria follwing his escape from London. According to sources, the police officer is being linked with alleged assistance for the Bayelsa state governor’s escape.

“Mr. D. S. P. Alamieyeseigha’s escape has jarred the nerves of the federal government in no small way,” said a source who pleaded anonymity.

“Right now the government is doing all it can through EFCC to arrest perceived accomplices to the escape. The vice president is probably being targeted. But because he is covered by immunity, they will attempt to get the boys around him,” he said.

Mallam Garba Shehu, media consultant to Atiku Vanguard, told Daily Trust however that the vice president was unruffled by the incident. He noted that there was no way the number two man would be dragged into an open confrontation with the president.

“He is the vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and still carries out his constitutional duties. He presides over FEC meetings in the absence of the president, and does all that the Constitution expects of him,” he said.
The arrest of CSP Abdul Yari brings to eight the number of the vice president’s aides to be unceremoniously dismissed. The other seven are: Dr. Adeolu Akande (August 2003), Prof. Sam Oyovbaire and Malam Garba Shehu (Dec. 2003), Onukaba Adinoyi Ojo (April 2005), General Jafaru Isa, Chris Mammah, and Shima Ayati (July 2003). trayed the house in bad light. All four were part of those who signed the impeachment notice only to come back to say that they were forced to do so.
The assembly in its resolutions advised the governor to stop pursuing shadows and return to London to face his trial. It said that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was still the acting governor even as it went ahead to reinstate the suspended clerk of the house.

Security men took over the house during the short proceedings and quickly escorted the assembly members away as soon as the sitting ended. The state lawmakers have been away from the state since last Tuesday when they addressed a press conference in Lagos serving the returnee governor with an impeachment notice signed by about seventeen members of the assembly.

However by the weekend, nine of the lawmakers who signed the impeachment notice said they were forced by the EFCC who had lured them to Lagos under the pretence of interrogating them on monies made available to them for constituency projects. The state government had also claimed that the governor has not been served with any impeachment notice whatsoever by the assembly despite the much publicised news briefing in Lagos.

Meanwhile the Ijaw National Congress has alleged that the federal government was doing everything possible to cause violence in Bayelsa state to enable it declare a state of emergency in the state.

In a statement signed by the Publicity secretary, the congress alleged that youths from outside the state have been hired to hold violent demonstrations that will enable the already deployed military men to move in to cause havoc.
“We had earlier alerted the nation to the federal Government’s determination to declare a state of emergency in Bayelsa state, which has so far proved difficult because of the peace that exists in the state despite provocative attempts by the forces of evil to parade the streets of Yenagoa with rented youths from outside the state all initiated by agents provocateur of the federal government”, the statement said.