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On Wednesday, November 27, the Speaker Martins Amaewhule-led House of Assembly in Rivers state passed the bill to repeal the Commission of Inquiry Law 1999.

The lawmakers in a statement signed by Amaewhule’s special assistant on media, Martins Wachukwu, said the bill was passed in their efforts “to pull Rivers State from the nadir of legislative anachronism and place it on the pedestal of legislative contemporariness.”

Meanwhile, Amaewhule-led House of Assembly members are close allies of Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Wike and Rivers governor, his successor, Siminalayi Fubara, are in a long battle over the control of Rivers state.

The statement released in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Wednesday, said the lawmakers passed the Rivers State Commissions of Inquiry Bill, 2024 to replace the… Read the full article.

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