Imo Assembly suspended me for rejecting Okorocha’s N50m oath taking inducement –Lawmaker – Punch Newspapers

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Chidiebube Okeoma,Owerri

One of the four lawmakers suspended by the Imo state House of Assembly on Wednesday for alleged unparliamentary conducts, Nkenna Nzeruo, representing Oru East, has accused the speaker and the 21 other lawmakers of witch hunting him.

He claimed that he was suspended because he rejected N50m oath taking inducement to support the governorship aspiration of the chief of staff to the governor, Uche Nwosu.

The embattled lawmaker in a release he personally issued in Owerri on Thursday, said that part of his ordeal was because he rejected the N50m oath taking inducement and refused to go to the media to attack Senator Hope Uzodimma who is having political issues to settle with the governor.

He said apart from his suspension from the legislature, he has been marked for physical assault.

The statement read in part, “First, I was duly elected as member representing…



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