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Anambra House Speaker Maduagwu calls lawmakers 'rascals' after she's impeached

She's been impeached due to alleged incompetence, docility, financial impropriety and high-handedness.

Rita Maduagwu

Maduagwu was impeached as Speaker during plenary at the Assembly chamber due to alleged incompetence, docility, financial impropriety and high-handedness.

The motion for impeachment was moved by Ikemba Uzoezie (Aguata II Constituency) and seconded by Onyebuchi Offor (Ekwusigo Constituency).

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Uzoezie was subsequently elected the new Speaker by the plenary which was attended by 22 members of the 30-member Assembly.

Maduagwu kicks against impeachment

Maduagwu has dismissed the process that led to her impeachment as Speaker, branding it a "bundle of illegality".

The 51-year-old referred to the lawmakers that impeached her as 'rascals' and maintained that she remains the Speaker.

She said, "Nobody can impeach me because I have not committed any offence. They didn't have any power known to any law to impeach me.

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"They need two-thirds of our members to impeach the Speaker or the governor. So, I'm still the Speaker."

She adjourned plenary till Thursday, November 15.

Maduagwu, a law graduate from the University of Lagos, was first elected to the House in 2011.

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