By Onyekachi Eze
There is unease moments at the Imo State House of Assembly, over an alleged slash of Lawmakers Salaries and other entitlements.
Recall that Trumpeta Newspaper had reported last week of the Governor, Hope Uzodinma’s Government resolve to cut down on the Lawmakers salaries.
But that move seems to be affecting only the Members in the opposition Political Party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
Grapevine sources have it that after a meeting Governor Uzodinma had with the twenty-one APC members, salaries and allowances of the Minority caucus were reportedly slashed.
Although the percentage of the slash is yet to be ascertained and made public, but six of the PDP Members constituting the Minority are said to have received their October salaries, shortchanged.
This development, Trumpeta gathered was not accepted by the Legislators as they plan a shutdown.
However, distasteful occurrence that followed the move was the setting up of in-house Committee to look into the Accounts of the Legislators.
While the said Committee is made up of only those in the Majority, no-one from the Minority was considered to be part of the Committee.
The action, they believed was premeditated to either suffer the opposition in the House or force them to join the APC.
Some of the affected Lawmakers who spoke under strict anonymity vowed to resist such attempt, adding that as elected Legislators, nobody is entitled to earn anything higher than other, unless on events of Leadership hierarchy.
They promised to expose a lot of heinous activities of the House and the Executive if the perceived hatred and segregation is not revisited to favor all.
“We are all equal. It does not matter under what Party platform you are elected into the House. But disparity can come if you are a Principal Officer”, Trumpeta was told.
