State Of Emergency: Reps Deny Allegation Of 5,000 Inducements

The House of Representatives has denied allegations that each member was induced with as much as 5,000 dollars to ratify President Bola Ahmed Tinubus request on the State of Emergency declaration in Rivers State.

Deputy spokesman of the House, Hon. Philip Agbese Benue, APC while responding to the issue in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Saturday, described the allegation as false, malicious and emanating from the pit of hell.

According to Agbese, the Thursdays resolution of the House on the State of Emergency declaration in Rivers was done out of patriotism and in the interest of restoring lasting peace to River State.

He said, The allegation that members of the House of Representatives were induced with 5,000 to pass a resolution, is unfair to the Parliament. Very, very unfair to the Parliament. What we did on Thursday was to align ourselves with what I call the wisdom of King Solomon.