The Rivers State Home of Meeting, led by Martin Amaewhule, has shut down all expenditures of Governor Siminalayi Fubara till he presents his finances earlier than the lawmakers.
The meeting made the transfer throughout plenary on Monday, following a seven-day ultimatum the lawmakers gave the governor to current his finances earlier than the Home.
The Chief of the Home, Main Jack, raised the movement informing the Home concerning the expiration of the seven-day ultimatum given to the governor to current the 2024 finances earlier than the Home.
After deliberation, the Home voted to close down the Rivers State Consolidated Income Account, thus stopping Fubara’s administration from spending any cash on behalf of the state.
PUNCH On-line reported that the Amaewhule-led Meeting had on July 8 given Fubara, a seven-day deadline to resubmit the 2024 finances and likewise accused him of breaching the provisions of the 1999 Structure as amended.
In a letter dated July 8, 2024, signed by Amaewhule and despatched to Fubara on Monday, the Home highlighted the governor’s actions that breached the Structure.
This order was issued throughout the first session of the pro-Wike Home after a hiatus of a number of months.
Fubara had beforehand offered the finances to the faction, along with his present Chief of Workers, Edison Ehie, presiding as Speaker.
Ehie and the pro-Fubara lawmakers handed the finances estimates, which the governor then signed into legislation.
The continuing political disaster between the governor’s loyalists and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, is marked by repeated interventions to settle their variations.
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