Ebonyi State Deputy Speaker, Baze Orji, factional Speaker, Helen Nwaobashi, and 13 other members of the troubled state House of Assembly were on Tuesday arrested by police over alleged threat to life and conspiracy.
The Deputy Speaker, representing Afikpo South East State Constituency, and the 13 other lawmakers suspected to be loyal to Nwobashi were arrested in the morning by a team of policemen from the state police command headquarters, Abakaliki.
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