Protesters Storm Assembly Compound
Rivers State House of Assembly, yesterday, adjourned indefinitely following threats to arrest the Speaker, Hon Otelemaba Dan-Amachree and other key officers of the state legislature as well as the state Commissioner of Finance, Dr. Chamberlain Peterside.
Sequel to this, the speaker has appealed to the National Assembly to intervene in the crisis rocking the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He alleged that there were plans to declare a state of emergency in the state before Thursday, May 9, 2013 as
youths from five constituencies in the state, including Port Harcourt 3, Omuma, Ogu/Bolo, Obio/Akpor 1 and 2 stormed the House of Assembly complex in Port Harcourt demanding the removal of Governor ChibuikeRotimiAmaechi and the Speaker of the House.
However, there were disagreements between some of the protesters, especially those from Ogu/Bolo constituency, and their leaders over money promised them as some complained that N2, 000 given to them to be part of the protest was paltry.
Speaking to newsmen at the Assembly complex in Port Harcourt yesterday, Amachree said that the House would have reconvened if not for the plot to destabiliseit.
Represented by his Media Adviser, Jim UdedeOpikithe speaker said, “The House did not sit due tosecurity the situation within and outside the complex. The House was supposed to reconvene by 10.00 am, but before then, we saw some strange visitors in their thousands, who came here to stage a protest.
SOURCE:LEADERSHIP
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