RSHA Has Received Over Seven Private Bills – Leadera

The Rivers State House of Assembly, has debunked insinuations in some quarters that only one member of the 7th Assembly has presented a private member bill on the floor of the House.

Consequent upon this, the Leader of the state Assembly, Hon. Chidi Lloyd told our correspondent recently in his office that the House had received about seven private member bills some of which have already been passed and assented to by the Governor to become laws of the state.

Hon Lloyd who represents Emohua Constituency hinted that inspite of his duties, he had presented both present executive bills and personal bills, otherwise called private member bills to the House.

He explained that people had misrepresented his personal bills to be government bills, stressing that the distinctions were clear because Executive Bills carry the name House Leader, while his private bills have Hon Chidi Lloyd representing Emohua on them.

Hon. Lloyd listed Rivers State Local Government Law No.2 of 2012, Rivers State Bonds Law, Debt Management Office Law, R/S Senior Secondary School Board Law and the state Public Office Holder Bill now in the committee state as his personal bills.

Similarly, he noted that Hon Victoria Nyeche, representing Port Harcourt Constituency I presented the State Handicapped Persons Welfare Bill which has gone through the first reading while the Bill seeking the rights of women to share in family property presented by Hon. Michael Okey-Chinda was in the second reading stage.

According to the House Leader, the clarification of the misrepresentation became necessary to put the records straight and to avoid giving the impression that the House members were not doing enough.

He observed that the lawmakers were working on various bills that would be presented to the House in due course, adding that before a bill was presented to the House, a lot of work was done underground including research.