On the heels of claims by a faction of the Enugu State House of Assembly that it had impeached the Speaker of the House, Hon. Eugene Odo, the speaker, has described his purported impeachment by the nine-man faction of the lawmakers as legislative recklessness and impunity.According to Odo, he remains the Speaker of the Assembly, adding that the action of the Hon. Chinedu Nwamba group was illegal, unknown to law and unknown to democracy.
“The status quo remains. I am still the speaker. It is only two-thirds of the 24 lawmakers that can impeach or suspend the speaker and only eight of them cannot suspend or impeach the speaker.
“It is true that they formed a quorum but a quorum cannot impeach the speaker,” Odo said.
The speaker alleged his travails to his refusal to sign a forged supplementary appropriation for 2012 which the governor allegedly wanted him and the clerk of the assembly to sign in 2015.
According to Odo, the document had no records in the proceedings of the Assembly.
On the genesis of the crisis in the Assembly, the speaker said it all began when the lawmakers declined to sign the N11bn loan sought by the governor less than 60 days to the end of his tenure.
“The governor surreptuously called some members and gave them N2m each to impeach the speaker,” he alleged, adding that one of the lawmakers who felt that the impeachment was against his conscience pulled out, leaving only eight of them.
He vowed that the Assembly would resume its plenary session on Tuesday.
Oghene....wahala in ma beloved enugu state....hmmm,,this odo man stingy die...I hv had an encounter with him,,d man get mind,,am not surprise he is having issues with his colleagues
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