OPINION: Rivers: It’s Time for the Roundtable
By Sam Akpe It is becoming realistically difficult to determine where the loyalty of the elected members of the Rivers State House of Assembly lies. Who exactly is controlling their conscience!. By the 1999 Constitution, a state legislature—comprising elected members—is an arm of a state government, just as the executive and the judiciary.. This explains why members of the legislature earn salaries from government purse, drive exotic cars, and live in befitting mansions built or paid…