BREAKING!!! Special Squad From Abuja Storms A’Ibom, Arrest Assembly Clerk, Cashier Over Sacked APC Lawmakers
Following
the sack of some All Progressives Congress lawmakers, clerk of the Akwa
Ibom State House of Assembly, Mrs Mandu Umoren, together with the
assembly’s cashier, Mr Monday Akpan, have been unlawful arrested by the
Police on Friday.
Igbere TV gathered that their arrest was
because of what they tagged “unpaid working imprest ” of five former
lawmakers whose seats were declared vacant by the House in November.
Igbere
TV also gathered that Umoren and Akpan were invited to the state police
headquarters in Uyo to explain issues and make statements surrounding
the said payment, but were detained afterwards and up till 5.30 pm they
were yet to be released.
The five sacked lawmakers namely
Idongesit Ituen, Nse Ntuen, Gabriel Tobi, Victor Udofia, and Otobong
were said to have written a petitioned to the police insisting on the
forceful payment of their imprest for the month of December.
Police
Public Relations officer, DSP Odiko Macdon, could not be reached as of
the time of filing this report. But Macdon, who confirmed custody of the
two Assembly officials to Uyo based Inspiration Fm, moments ago, said
they were under investigation and that there were not under arrest.
Sources
at the police headquarters told Igbere TV that a special police squad
had landed the Victor Attah International Airport this afternoon on a
special mission to ensure the illegal payment of the working imprest to
the five former lawmakers.
Speaker of the House, Onofiok Luke,
had cited infringement of Section 109 (1) g (2) by the former lawmakers,
who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All
Progressives Congress (APC), before he declared their seats vacant.
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