Agbaso, who declined the invitation of the panel set up to re-investigate him after a committee of the House probing him over an allegation of receiving a N458 million bribe from a contractor, J-Pros, indicted him, was immediately replaced by Governor Rochas Okorocha’s Chief of Staff, Prince Eze Madumere.
A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, had earlier in the day cleared the way for the investigation and eventual impeachment of Agbaso over the bribe allegation.
Agbaso, who doubled as the state Commissioner for Works, was accused of collecting the bribe from the contractor handling the Sam Mbakwe Road in the state capital.
The contractor reportedly abandoned the road due to this.
Agbaso blamed Okorocha for his plight, claiming all he ever took from the contractor was a bottle of wine.
After losing out on Thursday at the court, which had earlier granted him a restraining order, Agbaso did not bother to attend the sitting of the seven-man panel already constituted by the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Benjamin Njemanze, to re-investigate the matter after his indictment by the committee of the state House of Assembly.
With his absence, it was thus easy to move on to impeach him.
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