Reps Minority Leader Tussle: DSS told to probe lawmakers over alleged dollar inducement

Nigeria’s Department of State Service has been urged to urgently probe the lawmaker representing Ideato North/Ideato South Federal Constituency of Imo State successful the Federal House of Representatives, Ikenga Ugochinyere, and 60 different legislators implicit alleged dollar inducement ungraded presently rocking the House.

A civilian nine organisation, the Centre for Legislative Accountability and Democratic Integrity, CLADI, made this petition known successful a papers dated June 5, 2026, signed by its National President, Usman Abdullahi, and Secretary, Barr Chika Nwafo. 

The petitioners demanded that the Department of State Services, DSS, statesman an contiguous probe into allegations that lawmakers received fiscal inducements successful transportation with the contention for the presumption of number person successful the House of Representatives.

In a petition titled “Request for Immediate Investigation into Alleged Financial Inducement of Members of the House of Representatives successful the Contest for Minority Leadership Position”, the radical urged the DSS to analyse Ikenga Ugochinyere and much than 60 absorption lawmakers reportedly progressive successful the endorsement scandal.

The CSO described the allegations arsenic a superior menace to the integrity of the National Assembly and Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian institutions.

According to the CSO, reports that la...