{
  "id": 16825547,
  "title": "Community alleges deputy speaker bullying resident over FG project",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/community-alleges-deputy-speaker-bullying-resident-over-fg-project-16825547",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-28T01:12:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Punch",
    "slug": "punch",
    "url": "https://punchng.com/community-alleges-deputy-speaker-bullying-resident-over-fg-project/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Niger Data Mobilisation Team and Nkpa indigenes have accused Deputy Speaker Ben Kalu and his campaign director, Trump Eke, of bullying their son, Darlington Agoha, over a faulty project in their constituency. Community members met with the two at the high court in Umuahia and demanded that they withdraw a lawsuit filed against Agoha, who they called a \"dedicated public interest advocate.\" Agoha has been facing \"relentless judicial intimidation for the past two years\" after he raised concerns about the quality of the N1.3 billion Ecological Fund project for the Nkpa Road. The Deputy Speaker's campaign director, Eke, defended the lawsuit, saying it was \"part of our democratic culture\" and that Agoha had a right to \"protect his integrity if he feels his name has been defamed as a public servant.\"",
  "summary": "A community has accused Deputy Speaker Ben Kalu of bullying a resident with a lawsuit for questioning a substandard N1.3bn FG road project in his constitue Read More: https://punchng.com/community-alleges-deputy-speaker-bullying-resident-over-fg-project/",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}