After a number of weeks, the Martins Amaewhule-led Rivers State Home of Meeting sat on Monday, eleventh March, 2024.
The Amaewhule-led Meeting is alleged to be loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, a former governor of the state.
The group of lawmakers, who’re loyal to Wike, had some months in the past defected from the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The seats of the lawmakers had been declared vacant following their defection.
4 lawmakers loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, led by Edison Ehie, now Chief of a Employees to the Rivers State Authorities Home, declared the seats vacant.
Regardless of the event, the lawmakers loyal to the FCT Minister continued holding sittings.
Nevertheless the faction of lawmakers, numbering 26, went silent weeks after overriding the governor to go 4 new payments into regulation.
Nevertheless, on Monday eleventh March, 2024, the lawmakers held their first plenary in weeks.
In the course of the plenary, they held the primary studying on the Rivers State Native Authorities (Modification) Invoice, 2024.
Presenting the Invoice, the member representing Omuma Constituency, Silvanus Nwankwo said that it seeks to additional amend the Rivers State Native Authorities Legislation No. 5 of 2018 and different issues linked thereto.
Nwankwo added that the Invoice has 4 clauses and when handed could also be cited because the Native Authorities (Modification) Legislation, 2024.
Additionally, the Home debated on the Rivers State Training Modification Invoice, 2024z after the Invoice was learn the second time.
Tekenari Granville, the sponsor, urged his colleagues to assist the Invoice, which seeks the return of Kalabari Women Excessive College, Buguma, to the state authorities, as a result of “it was initially constructed by group effort a number of years in the past; however was erroneously categorized and ceded to church as Mission College in 2005″.
Granville said additional that, after the college was ceded to the Church, it was deserted, however the earlier administration within the state renovated the college to its current standing.
