The Central Regional police have written to the Speaker of Parliament to release Mr. Isaac Edumadze, the Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam in the Central Region, to assist in police investigations. This was after the police established a clear case of assault by Mr Edumadze on the Central Regional Editor of the Daily Graphic, Mr Joe Okyere. The Central Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Teye Okusu, in an interview, said Mr Edumadze would be charged with assault and, upon the advice of the Attorney-General, put before court. He said days of investigations which included a fact-finding visit to Mr Edumadze's residence at Ajumako, where the incident happened, indicated that Mr Edumadze and others on the orders of Mr Edumadze, had assaulted Mr Okyere. Mr Okusu said the Ajumako Police had been tasked to arrest four bodyguards of Mr Edumadze, who were believed to have gone into hiding. He said no arrests had been made yet. He said until Mr Edumadze was released by Parliament the police could not compel him to give his statement because of the immunity he enjoyed as an MP. He said the police would ensure that the case was acted upon but added that whatever would come out would depend on the advice from the A-G's office. On May 25, 2008, Mr Okyere was allegedly assaulted by Mr Edumadze and his bodyguards when he (Mr Okyere) and another reporter, Mr Philip Baidoo, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation reporter in the Central Region, had gone to the residence of Mr Edumadze after he had lost the NPP primary. Mr Edumadze, on realising that Mr Okyere was in Mr Baidoo's car in his compound, held the two in his residence at Ajumako for over an hour, most of which time he and others assaulted Mr Okyere. Mr Okyere was in the vehicle with Mr Baidoo when Mr Baidoo decided to go to the defeated MP's house to say hello to him as the former Central Regional minister. Source: Daily Graphic