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Impeachment Threats Against Fubara, Efforts In Futility, Group Asserts
A non-governmental organisation in Rivers State, the Gokana Good Governance Foundation, has said that the recent moves by the Rt. Hon. Martins Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara over an alleged maladministration cannot stand, inasmuch as the lawmakers remain illegal occupants of the State Assembly.
This is contained in a statement released shortly after an enlarged general meeting of the group in Bodo City, recently.
The statement, signed by the group’s President, Secretary and Publicity Secretary, Dr. Burabari Kiebel, Barr. Churchill Kere and Comrade Abigail Kponabari respectively, stated that “At a time when economic issues top the priority list of every responsible government in Nigeria, prompting collaborative efforts between the executives and legislatures to ensure laws and policies that would alleviate the suffering of the masses are put in place in various states, one would focus on enacting laws to ease the immediate suffering of the masses and promote peace and development.
“However, rather than the embattled members of the Rivers State House of Assembly to focus on enacting laws that would take the masses out of penury, hardship and mis-governance of former governor and now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike, they resorted to diminishing their political relevance by constantly putting down laws that supported the Wike’s failed administration, which they were part of simply because Wike was stopped from a third term arrangement through Governor Siminalayi Fubara.”
The group also said that while the parliaments in other states in the country are striving to make laws that promote development, the lawmakers in Rivers State are engaged in promoting darkness, adding that, “Otherwise, what has stopped them from passing many executive bills sent to them since October last year before they embarked on their path of perdition?”
The group noted that these executive bills, if passed into law, would see to the economic prosperity of Rivers State and even put infrastructural development and job creation on the fast track, “but over four months after, the people claimed to be Rivers State House of Assembly members representing the same people faced with economic hardship in today’s Nigeria have not even opened the file to at least see what it entails.
“This is because we are running an Assembly of one godfather. Rather than attending to these people-centred bills the Amaewhule-led coterie of political scoundrels have focused on amending and repealing laws that are of no relevance to alleviating the persisting economic challenges faced by the people of Rivers State.”
The group noted that “in their (lawmakers) usual rash and brash manner, they are threatening to commence another impeachment proceeding against the governor in their chase for vain glory. They have repealed by them several laws made by themselves, even when they are still not lawmakers in the eyes of the law. This is with particular reference to Section 109(1g) of the 1999 Constitution as amended.”
According to the group, “It is therefore naive for the supposed lawmakers to assume that such laws can take retrospective effect. There is prohibition law restricting retrospective laws.
“Why Amaewhule and his co-travelers always entangle in unconstitutionality? Why do they choose to allow themselves to be used as political tools and bootlickers for the purpose of destabilization just to satisfy the whims and caprices of one man, whose insatiable thirst for power and public wealth has altered the political landscape of Rivers State for bad and slowed down its developmental pace? How long will the people of Rivers State continue to be denied of effective legislation at this time of economic insecurity, while their supposed state legislators continue to play politics to the detriment of the prosperity of the state?”
The NGO, therefore, warned Amaewhule and other embattled lawmakers who it said, are sitting on a keg of gun-powder, to prepare for the wrath of Rivers people, adding that, “They have lost their taste as elected lawmakers and now turned over night to become law-breakers because of one man who, out of greed and rascality, is bent on doing otherwise.”
A former Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo, has claimed that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is “playing god” in the current political crisis that has pitched him against the Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara.
Dokubo also chided President Bola Tinubu for, according to him, handing over “Rivers and Bayelsa” to the ex-governor.
“He is now playing god. It is dead on arrival, all those things that he is doing,” Dokubo said in a video that surfaced on X.com on Monday.
He added, “I advise my friend, President Bola Tinubu; what you are doing to all Ijaw, Ikwerre people in Rivers State (sic). You took Rivers state and gave it one man”
In April, Fubara revealed that the administration has raised the monthly Internally Generated Revenue of the state from N12 billion which he met upon assumption of office to N27 billion.
Dokubo described the development as commendable while alleging that the governor only had access to N6 billion when he assumed office.
“The governor had come out to say that the IGR for Rivers State is now N27bn up from N12bn. The governor is even being economical with the truth. When the governor came in, they were giving him a paltry sum of N6bn,” he said.
Meanwhile, in another twist to the ongoing crisis, Fubara on Monday said that he would set up a panel of inquiry to look into the affairs of governance in the state.
He disclosed this during the swearing-in and administration of the oath of office on Dagogo Iboroma, SAN, as the Attorney General of the state and Commissioner for Justice.
The governor criticized recent comments by the former Attorney-General of the State and Justice Commissioner, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, SAN, who resigned from his cabinet over a fortnight ago and urged the new Attorney-General to defend the state.
He stated, “It is not the one that while you were here… the only thing you do is to sabotage the government.
“Instead of you to close your mouth, you publicly claim that you’re a learned person to tell people that you’re the Chief Law Officer. Chief Law Officer, you were here and went to stand before a Magistrate Court.
“At that time you didn’t remember that you’re a Chief Law Officer going against the ethics of your job.”
The Federal Executive Council chaired by President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a tripartite committee to streamline visa processes and acquisition for investors interested in investing in Nigeria.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, revealed this, yesterday, after the FEC meeting held at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“Our visa processes are becoming cumbersome. The ease of doing business is also tied to our visa processes.
“Going forward, those investors, tourists would find it easy to acquire a visa within the next 48 hours,” Idris said.
The meeting which began on Monday was adjourned till Tuesday to allow for other “far-reaching” decisions, the information minister had told journalists.
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Panel To Probe Governance In Rivers Underway -Fubara …Swears In Iboroma As New Attorney-General
Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has declared his readiness to set up a panel of inquiry to look into the affairs of governance in the state.
Fubara disclosed this during the swearing-in and administration of the oath of office on Dagogo Iboroma, SAN, as the new Attorney General of the state and Commissioner for Justice.
The governor criticised recent comments by the former Attorney-General of the State and Justice Commissioner, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, SAN, who resigned from his cabinet over a fortnight ago and urged the new Attorney-General to defend the state.
Fubara stated, “It is not the one that while you were here… the only thing you do is to sabotage the government.
“Instead of you to close your mouth, you publicly claim that you’re a learned person to tell people that you’re the Chief Law Officer. Chief Law Officer, you were here and went to stand before a Magistrate Court.
“At that time you didn’t remember that you’re a Chief Law Officer going against the ethics of your job.”
Addressing the new AG, the governor said, “You have a big task. As it is today in the local parlance, they say the jungle has matured. We will be setting a panel of inquiry to investigate the affair of governance.”
The governor further said there was a deliberate attempt to sabotage his administration, saying, “If we disagree, no matter how bad it is, it should be resolved.
“But it has become very clear that this disagreement there is no headway to it, and for many reasons, there is very visible evidence that there is sabotage, a deliberate attempt to sabotage this administration.
“Maybe where they are they are telling them nothing will happen, it is happening here live, we have our own legislators that are performing their duties according to the Constitution. So that record is threatened.”
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