ONITSHA— MEMBERS of the Anambra State House of Assembly yesterday differed on the suspension of two of their colleagues over alleged involvement in the recent mayhem that was unleashed on the state.
The suspended members, Keluo Molokwu and Mike Offor last week petitioned the House of Assembly demanding that their suspension should be revisited by giving them fair hearing.
But some members have strongly opposed the idea of revisiting the matter while some of the lawmakers argued that it would be proper to give their supended colleagues a fair hearing.
Speaking shortly after a meeting of the committee of the whole House, the chairman of the House committee on foreign Affairs, Frank Anthony Igboka representing Njikoka II constituency told the vanguard that the House had resolved to revisit the matter with a view to giving the suspended lawmakers a chance to defend the allegations against them.
"No mistake was made in our decision to suspend them. They have a right to react and they have done that through a petition to the House. That is why we have invited them to appear before the Judicail committee of the House."
The Deputy speaker of the House, Ozo Ughamadu in a separate interview with the vanguard said the decision of the House to suspend the two legislators was final and cannot be revisited.
"In the legislature, what we do is usually sacrosant on the floor of the House. What i want you to know is that this is a legislature that can not act without getting it’s fact and being so sure", he said.
Ughamadu said the House arrived a decision to suspend their collegues based on information provided it by four credible lawmakers.
"I want to say that I do not know the extent of involvement of some of them but I know that four members of the House told the House the extent of their involvement, how they (two suspended members) were manipulated, offered money and documents to sign. So, it is not a matter of politics. When a member is found to have been involved directly or indirectly in the mayhem, the House must sanction that person," he said.
The lawmaker representing Ihiala I constituency and chairman, House committee on police Affairs, Vitalis Okafor in his reaction said that the House by its standing order can not go back to a matter it had concluded.
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