Police arrest Ebonyi
Speaker, 13 lawmakers
 Posted by: Ogochukwu Anioke,
Abkaliki
 in Featured, News Update
 7 hours ago

Fourteen members of Ebonyi State
House of Assembly members loyal to
Hon Helen Nwobasi have been
arrested by the Police in the State.
They were arrested Tuesday
morning outside the court premises.
They were in the court premises for
the court case on the leadership of
the assembly between their group
and the Chukwuma Nwazunku led
group.
The crisis started last three weeks
when 18 of the 24 members of the
house allegedly impeached speaker
Chukwuma Nwazunku.
But Nwazunku denied he was
impeached describing his
impeachment as illegal.
He and nine lawmakers loyal to him
filed a suit asking the State High
Court to restrain Nwaobasi from
parading himself as Speaker.
The Nwaobasi group also filed a
counter motion seeking to restrain
Nwazunku as Speaker of the
Assembly.
The court had fixed today for further
hearing on the suit which the 14
house members attended.
But the Police laid siege for them at
the gate of the court and bundled
them to the nearby State Police
Headquarters.
The incident happened at about 10
am as they were leaving the court
premises.
At the time of filling this report, they
were still in detention at the
command.
Notable among those arrested were
the Minority Leader, Enyi C. Enyi
(APC) and Minority Whip, Joseph
Nwaobasi (APC), Deputy Speaker,
Blaise Orji(PDP) and the Speaker
Helen Nwaobasi.
No reason have been given for their
arrest at the time of filling this report.
Police spokesman, Chris Anyanwu
denied knowledge of the arrests.
Reporters were also chased out of the
police headquarters premises by
police officers on the orders of the
Police Commissioner.

PDP and their Pepper soup
politics...

APC and PDP were not happy since , Ebola almost took the shine off them

No legal justification for their arrest yet?

When will the Nigerian police stop being tool of political office holders ?

Indeed. Nwazunku remains Speaker, Ebonyi State House of Assembly.

The political drama unfolding in this country shows that education cannot make one wise.

The messy muddy slippery water of Nigeria politics.

Who fool na him loss.

The Governor certainly has a hand in this political drama in the state house of assembly...........because of his senatorial ambition

This lady that parade herself as Ebonyi state speaker shud be suspended because this could only bring normacy to Ebonyi state house of assembly

The power play in Ebonyi House of Assembly is more of tribalistic than individualistic

aguiyi: APC and PDP were not happy since , Ebola almost took the shine off them

Lol..........hilarious.

I didn't even notice until now that APC even have a slot in that state's Assembly.