‘You do not have the power to investigate my term of office,’ former administrator, Ibas, challenged the river parliament members

Administrator Sole Rivers State, Representative of Admiral Ibas-Abi (RTD.), Has rejected the efforts of the State Assembly to investigate the term of six months as the duty of fools as a fool’s duty.

Ibas, whose term of office as a state administrator ended on September 17 after the appointment of the six -month emergency rules imposed on the State by the President of Bola Tinubu, said such training was dead at the time of arrival.

Parliament speaker, Martin Amaewhule, during the first plenary House after the end of the emergency regulation last week said that parliament would investigate state expenditure in the last six months.

However. In a statement issued on Sunday by his senior special advisor in the media, Hector Igbikiowubu, a retired navy officer said that parliament members did not have the power to launch an investigation of him.

He showed that they did not appoint him as state administrator in the first example.

Ibok added that parliament members only played in the gallery had been far from the law business for six months he was responsible.

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He said: “When you say they will investigate the administrator’s term of office, is the assembly that appoints the administrator?

“You see, the point that needs to be considered is that comments are free. You cannot stop people from running comments. House of Assembly has been resting for a very long time, and you will appreciate that they have not been able to release their functions for a long time.

“Now they have continued, they must try to carry out their functions. So, it seems that they will investigate what is wrong in the state. Nobody can stop members of parliament from conducting an investigation of what they consider to be their function in the country.

“But as I asked earlier, are they who appoint an administrator?

“When you also reasoned that the administrator was supervised by the National Assembly, there was no reason that when you decided to investigate the administrator, you always say that you will investigate the administrator and the National Assembly.

“So, I hope they are lucky with their plans and investigations. But you and I know that such a company is the same as the duties of fools.”

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