The Hon. Martins Amaewhule-led Rivers State Home of Meeting, loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, has shut down expenditure from the state’s consolidated income fund.
The declaration, LEADERSHIP gathered adopted the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum handed right down to the governor to signify the 2024 finances earlier than the Home.
The Home disclosed this yesterday in a letter dated July 15, 2024, which was signed by Amaewhule and addressed to Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The state deputy governor, Professor Ngozi Odu, the secretary to the state authorities, the Accountant-Common of Rivers State, and the governor of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) have been copied within the letter.
Others are the Auditor-Common of Rivers State, the Chairman of Income, Allocation, Mobilisation and Fiscal Fee (RMFARC), the Accountant-Common of the Federation, and the managing administrators of Zenith Financial institution and Entry Financial institution.
The chief of the Home, Hon. Main Jack, had throughout plenary yesterday drawn the Home‘s consideration to the truth that, given the mixed provisions of Sections 121 and 122 of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as altered, Fubara has continued to violate the Structure by spending from the state’s consolidated income fund with out an Appropriation Regulation.
Debating Jack’s assertion, members condemned the governor’s disregard for the Structure in unison and in sturdy phrases, regardless of repeated reminders of the results of his actions. Thus, they expressed their help for the shutdown of expenditures from the state’s consolidated income fund forthwith.
Commenting on the Home Chief’s assertion, the Speaker, Amaewhule, said that it was unlucky that Fubara now sees violation of the provisions of the Structure and court docket judgements as a approach of governance.
He additional said that as representatives of the folks, the Home wouldn’t look the opposite approach whereas the governor persistently trampled on the structure he swore to uphold.
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