The Martins Amaewhule-led Rivers Assembly has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to stop what they described as the anti-democratic actions of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
Members were said to have listed what they called the tyrannical actions of the Governor beginning with the burning of the Hallowed Chamber of the Assembly, demolition of the Assembly Complex, attack on the official residence of the Speaker, withholding of Local Government Councils Fund and withholding of Assembly Service Commission Fund.
He said people were wondering if the governor appreciated the import of the Independence of the three arms of government as enshrined in the Constitution. Members of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria , Rivers State chapter led by the Chairman of Port Harcourt City Council, Allwell Nwunwor, appeared before the House on the invitation of the House Committee on Local Government.Fubara blasts contractor for abandoning project site after 80% payment
The chairmen prayed the House to come to the aid of the councils lamenting that the administration at the third tier of government had been strangulated on the directives of the governor.
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