The lawmakers, who expressed shock at the contrasting reports on the unpaid salaries of workers and the state’s economy has asked nine of the governor’s aides to appear before the House today, Tuesday by 10am to make clarification on the issues.
Those invited, according to the lawmakers who sat on Monday, are commissioners for Information, Finance, Tourism, Health, Power, Works, Agriculture, Budget and Transport.
Also, heads of ministries, departments and agencies summoned by the House include the Accountant-General, Chairmen of Board of Internal Revenue, Rivers State Assembly Service Commission and Secondary School Management Board.
This will be the first time the House would summon nine of the governor’s aides to give explanation on the state of Rivers’ economy and unpaid workers’ salaries.
The House had observed that while the state government was insisting that it had paid salaries of civil servants up to March 2015, there were reports that were contrary to such claim.
Meanwhile,the house had suspended three local government caretaker committee chairmen in the persons of Cassidy Ikegbidi (Ahoada East), Ojukaye Flag-Amachree (Asari-Toru) and Derick Mene (Khana).
An ad hoc committee has been set up to investigate allegations against the affected council chairmen.
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