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The Deputy Speaker of the Ebonyi House of Assembly, Blaise Orji was allegedly assaulted by political thugs that invaded the assembly complex on Monday, Vanguard reports. The hoodlums were said to have beaten up and denied the deputy speaker and some other key members of the House including House leader, Sam Nwali, Chief Whip, Kingsley Ikoro and nine others,  belonging to a faction of the House from gaining access into the assembly complex. State Commissioner of Police, Maigari Dikko, who arrived the scene with reinforcement of policemen, ordered the arrest the hoodlums, and whisked them away in hilux vans to the state police command. The Speaker, Nwazunku, Frank, denied that the affected lawmakers were not invited for the sitting and that they were denied access to the assembly.

Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole ShareThis Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole was born on April 4, 1952 in Iyamoh, near Auchi in today's Edo State. He was born into the humble family of Alhaji Aliyu Oshiomhole of blessed memory and Alhaja Aishetu Oshiomhole. After his secondary education, Adams Oshiomhole proceeded to the Ruskin College, Oxford where he majored in economics and industrial relations. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru. In 1969 before his tertiary education, he had taken up appointment with the Arewa Textiles Company. He was inspired to play an active role in the union because he was not satisfied with the quality of the union's leadership. Oshiomhole's other colleagues in the textile factory elected him as the union secretary after a shop-floor revolution, which he helped to organize. He became a full time trade organizer in 1975. In 1982, Adams Oshiomhole was appointed by the National Union of Textile Ga...