- Recall that the four lawmakers had approved the 2024 budget last week barely 24 hours after it was presented by Governor Similanayi Fubara.
The Martins Amaehwule-led faction of Rivers State House of Assembly says the actions of the four-member Assembly led by Edispn Ehie are in contravention of the law.
Recall that the four lawmakers had approved the 2024 budget last week barely 24 hours after it was presented by Governor Similanayi Fubara.
Amaehwule, who is loyal to former Governor Nyesom Wike, stated that the decisions reached by four legislators, who are loyal to governor Sim Fubara, are null and void, saying the lawmakers are only holding family meetings.
He also alleged that Fubara supervised the demolition of the State House of Assembly, adding that belongings of the lawmakers and staff of the Assembly were trapped inside the complex.
Amaehwul spoke on Sunday at a dedication service and stakeholders meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Port Harcourt.
He disclosed that they were not notified about the demolition or given the opportunity to move out their personal belongings and important documents from the complex.
He said that important documents, files, archives and personal belonging of the lawmakers and staff of the Assembly were destroyed during the demolition of the complex.
“As we speak the governor has gone to demolish the state House of Assembly an edifice built with tax payers money. He personally supervised the demolition of the complex not minding that our property, things belonging to members and staff of the Assembly were inside there and they were looting them. Documents, our archives, our belongings were inside the complex before the demolition.
“What the governor is doing is against the law. We hear that some four persons gathered and are meeting somewhere, we don’t know what they are doing. Rivers people should know it today that the House of Assembly of any state is defined by the constitution and the only way you can reconvene the House, you need to have a qourum and quorum is 11. If you are not up to 11, anything you are doing is a family meeting, anything they told you they have done ignore them it’s null and void the law is clear about it.
“Anything you are doing you must do it in line with the dictates of the constitution and the standing orders of the Rivers House of Assembly. We are 27; in all they are just four so whenever we meet, who is meeting, it’s Rivers State House of Assembly,” he said