The complex of the Rivers State House of Assembly, located on Moscow Road in Port Harcourt, will be reopened for legislative business on May 31, 2015.
The state Assembly complex was shut down on July 10, 2013, after the crisis rocking the state legislature escalated with members engaging each other in a free-for-all.
As an alternative, 25 lawmakers have been sitting at the old Government House in Port Harcourt, even as armoured personnel carriers were used to block the entrance into the Assembly complex for over one and a half years.
But speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the camp of the State Governor-elect, Chief Nyesom Wike, said everything, including ensuring that the Assembly complex was safe for lawmakers and workers, was being put in place.
Chairman of the Nyesom Wike Inauguration Committee, Chief Austin Opara, who presented to newsmen the inauguration programme of the governor-elect, maintained that the 8th House of Assembly would no more hold plenaries in Government House.
Opara, who is a former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, explained that part of the inauguration programme was the proclamation and inauguration of the 8th House of Assembly inside the chambers of the State House of Assembly on June 1, 2015.
The inauguration committee chairman also assured that the judiciary in the state would begin to function again and insisted that the state courts would be reopened.
“On Monday, June 1st, 2015, there will be the proclamation and inauguration of the State House of Assembly by the governor of Rivers State. We can tell you proudly that members of the Rivers State House of Assembly will no longer sit in Government House but inside the State Assembly complex.
“The inauguration of the new House of Assembly will hold in the State Assembly complex. Apart from that, another assurance I want to give you is that the judiciary in the state will work again,” Opara stressed.
He listed some of the items on the inauguration programme as the launching of ‘Operation Zero Port Hole in Port Harcourt’ and a lecture on Democracy and Good Governance by the Pro-chancellor of the University of Uyo, Professor Kimse Okoko. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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