MONROVIA: Efforts by aggrieved members of the House of Representatives to have Speaker Bhofal Chambers and his deputy Prince Moye removed are said to be intensifying.
A member of the House of Representatives speaking on condition of anonymity, said their first meeting on their plan to have Speaker Chambers and Deputy Speaker Moye ousted was held at the Riverside Resort located during the weekend.
OK FM source revealed the meeting brought together 19 lawmakers who vowed to lobby with their colleagues to generate more than the required signatures to remove the two men following their return to the Capitol.
Members of the Legislature are on their usual annual break and are expected to return in January next year.
Another member of the House informed OK FM that lawmakers are expected to come from their recess before January 2019 to ensure that Chambers and Moye are ousted.
OK FM has been reliably informed that President George Weah is contemplating on requesting members of 54th National Legislature to return from their recess to act on some key legislative instruments for passage into law.
The sources hinted that the aggrieved lawmakers want to take advantage of their return to effect their plan against their leaders.
Aggrieved members of the House of Representatives say they want their leaders removed on grounds that they’ve resisted cut in their salary and benefits.
Meanwhile the office of speaker Chambers and his deputy Prince Moye have debunk allegation of their refusal to cut their salaries and benefits.
According to the communication, “Speaker Chambers’ Office did receive US$1,221, 123 in the last Fiscal Year 2018/2019 and was reduced to US$1,043, 265 for this current budget period, whilst Deputy Speaker received US$766,381 last Fiscal Year 2018/2019 and was reduced to US$722,942 for the current budget period”
“Therefore, Speaker Chambers and Deputy Speaker Moye, hereby make it unequivocally clear that they have already as of the passage of the budget, made individual cuts in their respective compensation lines by 31.9% and 35.6%”.
