09 JUL

I am still in charge – Rivers Speaker, Amachree

PORT HARCOURT: SPEAKER of the Rivers state House of Assembly, Hon Otelemaba Amachree has dismissed as untrue allegations that he had been impeached by five members of the House.

It was reported this morning that five members of the House said to be anti governor Chibuike Amaechi lawmakers pronounced Hon Evans Bipi as Speaker of the assembly. The members at a session in the House said they had impeached the Speaker, Hon Otemeba Amachree.

Amachree, who spoke shortly after he presided over a session of the House where twenty three members gave approval to the governor to amend some sections of capital expenditure on the 2013 budget said there was no way five members could impeach principal officers of the state House of Assembly. Details Later

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