The House of Representatives has retraced its steps and voted against a second reading for the bill seeking to strip vice presidents, governors and deputy governors of their immunity.

On Thursday, Julius Ihonvbere, the House majority leader, moved a motion for it to be dropped.

The controversial bill Solomon Bob, a representative of the Abua/Odual and Ahoada East Constituency in Rivers State, sponsored passed for second reading on Wednesday.

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Bob’s stance was that the bill would ensure these officeholders would be accountable and shun corruption if they knew immunity was not absolute.

The bill was among 81 bills the House passed for second reading on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Also, the green chamber voted to drop the bill Benjamin Kalu, deputy speaker, sponsored.

Kalu proposed that the death penalty be abolished.

Originally, the death penalty, as contained in Section 33 (1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), says only a conviction grants a court the power to take a person’s life for a criminal offence.

Kalu’s bill proposed that courts be devoid of the power to grant the death penalty.