According to him, the commissioner allegedly decided to personally proffer charges against his clients, when the case was already before a court of competent jurisdiction. Afolabi has also called on Idahagbon to resign from office as he was not fit and proper to hold such important office. The petition which was copied the Director General, National Human Rights Commission saw Afolabi insisting that the case, the Commissioner of Police vs Segun Igbinedion and 12 others, was never investigated by the Edo State Attorney General as he was not the Commissioner of Police that investigated the case. He added that the court had not directed the Police to handover the case file to the Office of the Attorney General of Edo State which he said can only be done after arraignment and plea taken. He stated that his clients were arrested by the Police in Okada and after statements were taken from them, they were transferred to Benin and were charged to court for offences which bordered on conspiracy, assault, unlawful damage and manner likely to cause breach of public peace which are bailable. Afolabi said that they were surprised, that Mr. Idahagbon through a state counsel, preferred new charges of conspiracy, murder, prompting inter communal war and warlike undertaking against members of Egbeta community, which were not in tandem with the facts before the court just to enable the court declined jurisdiction in the matter. He added that through the action of the Attorney General, his clients were detained by the court for lack of jurisdiction to entertain the matter. He insisted that the essence of the Attorney General’s involvement was to ensure that the accused persons were remanded in prison custody. He said, “The office of the Attorney General of Edo State is a public office and not the private pocket of the AG as same is governed by statute and his power is spelt out in the constitution and in exercising the power, Section 211(3) of the 1999 Constitution comes in and the sections states as follows: “In exercising his power under this section, the Attorney General of a state shall have regard to the public interest of justice and the need to prevent abuse of legal process.”]]>