The Speaker Martins Amaewhule-led House of Assembly in Rivers State has 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.”

The statement released in Port Harcourt on Wednesday said the lawmakers passed the Rivers State Commissions of Inquiry Bill, 2024 to replace the old law.

It said the re-enacted Rivers State Commissions of Inquiry Law when it eventually becomes law would guide the holding of commissions of inquiry and for other related matters.

Debating on the report presented by Sylvanus Nwankwo, members lauded the committee for a job well done.

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They stressed that the response of members of the public to the public hearing spoke volumes on the acceptability of the bill and urged the House to pass the bill into law.

In his remarks, Amaewhule commended the committee and lawmakers for their robust debate on the report and the bill.

Amaewhule said that as a progressive Assembly, the lawmakers would continue to amend or repeal and re-enact obsolete and anachronistic laws that no longer served the interest of Rivers people.

Amaewhule expressed the hope that given the progressive import of the bill when passed and assented, it would further deepen the doctrine of separation of power.

Before passing the bill into law, the House In line with legislative practice and rules resolved into the Committee of the Whole and gave the bill clause by clause consideration.

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