Rivers lawmakers repeal assembly commission law
The Rivers State House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law to repeal the Rivers State House of Assembly Service Commission Amendment Law No. 3 of 2006.
The bill, it said, is to further amend the Principal Law of 1999 and other matters connected thereto.
This was contained in a statement signed by the media aide to the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Martins Wachukwu.
Contributing to the bill, members commended the Speaker and sponsors of the bill, describing it as a staff-centered and staff-friendly bill.
Commenting on the bill, the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, stated that the bill is aimed at giving staff of the Assembly the opportunity to grow to the peak of their career in the service like their counterparts in the other two arms of government.
Amaewhule explained that the power donated to the Assembly to appoint the Chairman and Members of the Assembly Service Commission by the 1999 Principal Law was taken away and given to the Executive by the 2006 amendment, hence the repeal of the 2006 Amendment Law.
He emphasised that the bill when passed, would consolidate the independence of the legislature.
In another development, the statement said the House gave the first reading to a Bill sponsored by Hon. Tekenari Granville, the member representing Asari Toru Constituency 1.
The bill seeks to amend the Rivers State Education (Return of Schools) Law No. 1 of 2005 by deleting “Kalabari Girls High School, Buguma” from the Schedule.
Earlier, the House, via a motion presented by Lemchi Nyeche, a member representing Ikwerre Constituency, observed a minute silence in honour of the late Dr Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Chizoba Wigwe, and son, Chizzy Wigwe, who died in a helicopter crash in the United States of America.
Amaewhule expressed condolences of the House to the Wigwe family, the people of Ikwerre Local Government, and the state.
The House thereafter resolved to reach out to the family and urged the state government to immortalise him as prayed in the motion.
