Ex-speaker, majority leader suspended – TheNigerialawyer

The crisis rocking the Imo State House of Assembly is yet to
abate as the new Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon.
Chinedu Offor has suspended the former Speaker and Majority Leader
of the House, Hon Acho Ihim and Lugard Osuji for 11 legislative
sittings.

Offor, (Onuimo State Constituency), who had emerged as the
speaker following the resignation of Hon. Lawman Duruji (Ehime
Mbano), last Wednesday, at the plenary held yesterday, suspended
Ihim (Okigwe) and Osuji (Owerri Municipal) for allegedly running
the Assembly “without administrative prudence.”

Hon Offor, who confirmed the suspension of the former House
principal officers, said that the duo during their tenures had,
through their activities, brought the House into disrepute.

With their suspension, it does mean that they would not be part
of the legislative activities until the winding down of the 8th
State Assembly, on June 6.

Imo State Assembly has been embroiled in crisis in the last one
month following the unilateral lifting of the suspension of the
council chairmen by the former Speaker, Acho Ihim, after they had
allegedly given the sum of N150 million to the leadership of the
House. But some members were said not to have been happy at being
schemed out of the sharing of the largesse.

Ihim had resigned his position as Speaker to avoid impeachment
after his suspension by angry members. Also, his deputy, Hon.
Ugonna Ozuruigbo, had also resigned in a bid to escape
impeachment.

However, Hon. Duruji, who emerged last week as the new Speaker
had also resigned, last Wednesday, paving way for Chinedu Offor,
former Commissioner of Information under the immediate past
government of Owelle Rochas Okorocha.

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