Governor Rotimi Amaechi may have begin to lose the grip of the State House of Assembly members, this is as Rivers State House Assembly on yesterday asked the Special Adviser to the Governor on Revenue Generation, Mr. Nwankwo Nwankwo, and the Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Chamberlain Peterside, to appear before it over the dwindling revenue base of the state.
The House also directed the Chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service Board, Mrs. Onene Obele, to appear before it over what it called ‘monumental’ fraud in the agency.
Deputy Speaker, Leyii Kwanee, who presided over plenary, instructed the Clerk of the House to write to the three officers, asking them to be present in the House during the next sitting.
Kwanee cautioned that no excuse would be accepted from them should they refuse to honour the invitation of the House.
The deputy speaker, however, decried the reason given by the State Commissioner for Water Resources for her failure to appear before members of the House over the $280m water and sanitation projects.
He warned that the commissioner must not fail to appear before the House at the next sitting, adding that members would not tolerate the lack of respect to constituted authorities.
Earlier, Deputy Leader of the House, Mr. Robinson Ewor, moved a motion during the House sitting on Tuesday, calling for an improvement in the revenue base of the state to enable the state governor to fulfill his promises to the people.
