The Ebonyi State House of Assembly has suspended one of its
members, Lilian Igwe, for allegedly getting drunk and acting inappropriately.
Moving the motion, on Tuesday, to suspend Igwe (PDP, Ivo), the
member representing Afikpo South East, Blasé Orji, alleged that she was seen on
several occasions drinking herself into a state of stupor and vomiting on
herself.
“The House has been brought to ridicule by the member
representing Ivo State Constituency, Lilian Igwe," he said. "She does
not only engage in excessive alcoholic drinking, she also boards commercial
tricycles, popularly called KEKE NAPEP, to the House, thereby not carrying
herself as an honourable member. Mr Speaker, based on this therefore, I move a
motion that Hon Lilian Igwe be suspended from the House."
The motion was seconded by Christian Ursulor, (PDP, Ezza South).
And when the House Speaker, Chukwuma Nwazunku, put it to
question, members unanimously adopted it.
Reacting to the development, Igwe, a lawyer, who was absent from
the plenary, debunked the allegations. "Only the members’ imaginations
played out the petty behaviour they accused me of," she said.
The only thing I have a problem with is her drunkenness. Members of the Parliament in UK and other developed nations take trains and buses with the masses to work. Joe Biden, Vice-president of United States travelled every day by train for 1½ hours each way from his home in the Wilmington suburbs to Washington, D.C., throughout his Senate career. If ordinary citizens board commercial tricycles to work, what wrong with her taking Keke Napep to the house: after all that is what is available in her state. Honorable members indeed!
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