Rivers Crisis: Lawmakers Seek Re-presentation of 2024 Budget, Writes Fubara

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

The Rivers State House of Assembly led by Martins Amaewhule  expressed dissatisfaction that they were yet to receive the State’s Medium Term Expenditure Framework and the 2024 Appropriation Bill.

This as the House has agreed to write the Governor, Siminlayi Fubara and notify him on the delay in the presenting the bill in line with the 1999 Constitution as amended.

Legislative sitting held at the legislators quarters, Port Harcourt, the Speaker

 Amaewhule hinted that the State House Assembly was Bill, where the Lawmakers in a vote unanimously agreed that the governor should be notified on the delay in representing the budget.

Recalled that the governor had presented the 2024 appropriation bill to the former speaker, Edison Ehie’s led assembly, which was adopted by the lawmakers last year and subsequently signed by the governor.

Meanwhile, the House yesterday gave First Reading to a Bill which seeks to amend the  State Traditional Rulers Law No. 4 of  2015.

The bill was sponsored by the Majority Leader, who is also the Member representing Akuku Toru Constituency I, Major Jack.

Presenting the bill, Jack explained that it seeks to amend some sections of the Principal Law, and when passed, will make the traditional rulers law to be in tune with current realities.

Similarly, the House gave First Reading to a Bill which seeks to repeal the Rivers State Advertisement and Use of State-owned Property (Prohibition) Law No.7 of 2022.

The Bill was sponsored and presented by the Member representing Port Harcourt Constituency II, Tonye Adoki.