The Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State Home of Meeting has declared that the just lately constituted Rivers State Funding Promotion Company by Governor Siminalayi Fubara is unlawful.
The Home, loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, additionally said that every one appointments made by the governor associated to the board weren’t recognised by legislation.
At its forty first sitting, held on the Meeting’s official quarters in Port Harcourt on Thursday, the Home asserted that there was no legislation allowing the creation of the company, nor had there been any communication to the Home on the matter.
The place of the factional Meeting was contained in an announcement on Thursday by the media aide to the Speaker, Martins Wachukwu.
The problem arose following remarks by the Chairman of the Home Committee on Commerce and Trade, Gerald Oforji, who offered a report on what was described because the “purported” inauguration of the Board of the Rivers State Funding Promotion Company by Governor Fubara.
Based on the assertion, the committee’s report famous that whereas such an company, if correctly established, might create a conducive local weather to draw and develop companies within the state, it regretted the absence of any legislation, as recognised by the Rivers State Home of Meeting, establishing such an company.
“The committee maintained that if such a legislation existed, the people so nominated would have been subjected to affirmation by the Rivers State Home of Meeting.”
Counting on the findings of the committee, members commented on the report, mentioning that the governor, in exercising his powers, “has relegated decency in governance to the background.”
The Speaker, Amaewhule, maintained that Fubara’s motion in appointing people to an company not backed by any laws within the state was condemnable.
He additionally recalled an identical motion taken by Governor Fubara when he claimed to have appointed people to the Board of the Bureau for Public Procurement, in addition to different appointments, with out regard to the provisions of present legal guidelines governing such appointments.
When the Speaker put the matter to a vote, the Home voted within the affirmative and strongly condemned the actions of the governor, declaring them unlawful and questionable.
