The Coalition of Registered Political Parties, CRPP, has called on the Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, to rise to his responsibility by effectively deploying the state’s security vote to tackle the growing insecurity in the state.
The call follows the abduction of a woman at a vegetable market in the heart of Benin City on Sunday, June 15, 2026,
The group warned that residents were tired of lamenting and having to listen to the government’s messages of commiseration with traumatised families of victims.
The National Chairman of the group, Dr Samson Isibor and Nkama Waribe, National Secretary, made the call in a statement made available to newsmen in Benin City.
The duo said they were alarmed that armed criminals are now “so daring and emboldened to the point of operating right within Benin City, the State capital, in broad daylight.
The group claimed that investors are now on the run because of the insecurity in the state.
“With heavy hearts, the leadership of the Coalition of Registered Political Parties (CRPP), refers to the broad daylight kidnapping at the Vegetable Market, on June 14, 2026, where a woman was forcefully abducted after they failed to take the husband.
“The pertinent question being asked now is, what does Governor Monday Okpebholo have to show for the close to N1 billion he receives every month as a security vote?
“Instead of putting the huge sum of money to work to secure the state, he is busy campaigning for 2.5 million votes for President Bola Tinubu.
“He is
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