The Anambra State House of Assembly has suspended the member representing Ayamelum Constituency, Bernard Udemezue, for three months.
The suspension was announced during plenary on Tuesday.
Udemezue’s suspension followed a post he made on social
media.
The lawmaker had in a WhatsApp message he shared in a group,
mostly populated by his constituents, revealed his allowances as a lawmaker.
He also disclosed that he receives N10 million quarterly
from the state government for projects in his constituency.
The disclosures did not go down well with his colleagues in
the Assembly.
A report presented by the House Committee on Rules,
Business, Ethics and Privileges chaired by the Majority Leader and member
representing Ekwusigo Constituency, Sir Ikenna Ofodeme, recommended Udemezue’s
suspension for three months without salary.
The committee described Udemezue’s conduct as
unparliamentary, and recommended that he should not be seen within the Assembly
for the period of the suspension.
Udemezue who had been calling out the Assembly leadership on
the social media, insisted that he did nothing wrong.
He stressed that his sole aim of revealing his emoluments
was to update his constituents on his stay in the Assembly.
Udemezue insisted that he was only being victimized because
he revealed that lawmakers collect N10 million quarterly for projects in their
constituencies.
According to him, some of the lawmakers pocket theirs, and
as a result were angry about the revelation.
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