Supreme Court stops Rivers allocations
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In the same judgement, the apex court also ordered that the members of the Martins Amaewhule-led faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly remained lawmakers.
By Paul Dada
The Supreme Court has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Accountant General to stop releasing statutory monthly allocations to Rivers State.
In the same judgement, the apex court also ordered that the members of the Martins Amaewhule-led faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly remained lawmakers.
The five member -panel of the Supreme Court invalidated and faulted the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal which vacated the order that stopped the release of funds to Rivers State from the consolidated revenue despite the failure of Governor Siminalaye Fubara’s to re-present the 2024 Appropriation Bill of the state before Martins Amaewhule-led House.
Justice Emmanuel Agim, who read the lead judgement, rebuked Governor Fubara for not obeying a subsisting court order mandating him to present the Appropriation Bill to the valid Assembly.
He said the 27 lawmakers who were alleged to have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, are still valid members of the Rivers Assembly, pending the final determination of their status.
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