With barely one year to the end of his administration, the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, EBSHA, on Thursday, approved an undisclosed amount as a loan request by Governor David Umahi.
The speaker of the House, Rt Hon. Francis Nwifuru, who read the governor’s letter of the loan request, during a plenary said the purpose of collecting the loan by the governor from commercial banks was to enable the state government to complete all its legacy projects.
Without much scrutiny, the loan was immediately approved in a motion moved by the Leader of the House, Hon. Victor Chukwu representing Ezza North-West Constituency and seconded by the Deputy Chief Whip, Hon. Benjamin Ezekoma representing Ebonyi North East constituency.
Nwifuru, therefore, directed the Clerk of the House to make a memo to Governor Umahi, informing him of the loan request approval to enable him to complete all the legacy projects that his administration embarked upon a few years ago.
The House leadership, it was gathered, tactically refused to mention the amount of money contained in the loan request letter forwarded to them by Umahi.
When newsmen approached Nwifuru, shortly after the Assembly seating, to get details of the loan request by the governor, he quickly entered his car and drove off.
