RVHA Moves To Investigate More LGAs

The Rivers State House of Assembly Committee on Local Government has reinstated its readiness to ensure that all the local government councils in the state were investigated before the expiration of their tenure.

The House Committee Chairman on Local Government, Hon. Ibani Ikuniye gave the indications Thursday, while speaking with journalists in his office.

He stated that the committee has marshaled out plans to investigate the various local government councils in the state adding that the committee would not renege in its oversight functions in ensuring that sanity and transparency is enthroned in the local government administration.

Hon. Ikuniye opined that the dissolution of the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Council by the State House of Assembly, Wednesday had vindicated the committee from its previous reports that indicted the ONELGA and Andoni local government councils adding that the committee reports were not in bias as was speculated by people.

The chairman stated that the committee is currently investigating other local government councils whose cases were pending adding that in no distance time their reports would be submitted to the State House of Assembly for further actions.

He explained that legislative business is not all about oversight functions adding that the Olevueli Cookey-Gam’s Committee set up by Governor Chibuike Amaechi to access the performance of the local government council in the state should not in any way assured that it had taken the constitutional responsibilities of the state legislature.

The lawmaker assured the people of the state that the committee would not do their job haphazardly adding that the state lawmakers were right in the positions they took in the dissolution of the ONELGA council.

“I wish to reinstate that the committee report we submitted to the House were done with all amount of honesty and transparency.  We found lapses on the submission given to us by the councils.”

“We discovered that public funds were not judiciously used. So the House acted accordingly,” he exclaimed.