The speaker of the 7th Abia State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Chinedum in response to his predecessor Rt. Hon. Chikwendu Kalu who in a recent interview described the 7th Abia Assembly as an irresponsible Assembly and a Jamboree where members gather to drink coffee and eat fried chicken and couldn’t boast of any productive legislation, he went ahead to accuse the house of failing to meet up the mandatory 181 days sitting approved by law, but in a swift response the immediate past speaker of the 7th Abia Assembly Rt Hon Chinedum Orji, described Rt Hon Chikwendu Kalu’s recent statement about the 7th Assembly as having engaged in a jamboree as unfortunate especially considering the fact that Kalu was also a Member of the said Assembly.
Rt Hon Chinedum Orji in a statement advised his predecessor to hide his face in shame as he has no moral justification to compare his tenure as Speaker to that of any other Speaker that has served in that Assembly.
Rt Hon Chinedum Orji challenged his predecessor, Rt Hon Chikwendu Kalu on just five areas so as to elicit a “non jamboree” response from him as Rt Hon Chinedum Orji and most of his colleagues were serious minded lawmakers who had no time to join him on that irresponsible lifestyle.
1. Did Rt Hon Chikwendu Kalu leave the assembly complex and Speaker’s lodge
better than he met it?
If he did let him show Abians with pictorial evidence.
2. He should mention acclaimed Bills, both for social and economic development, passed into Law under his leadership as Speaker.
3. He should explain how
a “death trap” erected in the name of a building in the assembly complex under his leadership which also stopped after window level cost over N300m yet cannot be completed even by the current Speaker.
4. What happened to all the items including furniture etc bought with taxpayers’ money at the Speaker’s lodge at the end of his tenure?
5. What really transpired at the twilight of the tenure of the 7th assembly with respect to his role in collecting monetary inducement to change the house rules?
The former Speaker has advised his predecessor to be reminded of the fact that he who lives in a glass house does not throw stones and that gratitude should be a virtue.
7th Abia Assembly: Rt.Hon. Chinedum Orji, Accuses His Predecessor Rt.Hon. Chikwendu Kalu Of Misappropriating 300 Million Naira Meant For Building Construction In The Assembly Complex.
