The Custodian April 15, 2014
A
socio-political group, Kengema Unity Forum, KUF, has dragged the Rivers State
House of Assembly to a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt for alleged breach
of some sections of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
as amended.
The
KUF said the state House of Assembly violated section 104 of the constitution
by holding their plenary sessions in Government House, adding that the members
never sat for one hundred and eighty one days as stipulated in the
constitution.
Counsel
to Kengema Unity Forum, Tubotamuno Dick told Source that all acts of
transaction of legislative businesses including making laws, approving and
appropriating of the 2012, 2013, and 2014 budgets, approving of nominees into
statutory positions by the state House of Assembly should be declared null and
void.
With peculiar reference to the recently approved 50 billion naira, Dick said
with the way the state Government was going, Governor Amaechi would put Rivers
economy at risk for his successor.
He
went further to say that the Kengema group also want an order of the court
directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct
elections to fill the position of the 32 members of the Rivers State House of
Assembly.
Other
parties in the matter include the Attorney General of the state, Attorney
General of the Federation and the State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP.
On
his part, the member representing Ogu-Bolo Constituency at the Assembly and the
leader of the anti-Amaechi lawmakers, Evans Bipi criticised the Assembly for
approving another loan facility for the State Government.
While
insisting that the legislative processes are illegal, Bipi said the members are
only wasting their time.
He also sounded a note of warning to the banks involved in issuing the loan to
desist from doing business with the state government stressing that the
Amaechi-led government does not have means to repay all the loans.
Bipi
also alleged that Governor Amaechi was immersing the loans in other to sponsor
activities of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
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