Rivers Assembly screened and confirmed 20 chairmen and Caretaker committee

                                             
Rivers State House of Assembly has  screened and confirmed 20  chairmen and Caretaker committee members for 20 local government councils of the State.

Speaker of the House, Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani announced their confirmation on Tuesday, after screening of the nominees and voting by the Assembly members.

Ibani, while reading out the  request by the state Governor, Nyesom Wike, said nominees for two local government  councils including Opobo Nkoro and Khana local government areas, were yet to be  forwarded to the Assembly.
 The nominees' list had three  former Caretaker Committee chairmen (CTC) including Bright Amewhule of Obio/Akpor, Ability Weke of Etche and Bright Ikowa.

Some of the newly confirmed CTC chairmen were Oye Egnewari (Abua/Odual), Ikachi Douglas (Ahoada East), Samuel Nwanosike (Ikwerre)  and Sunny Ejegwu (Port Harcourt City).

Also, the House of Assembly has appointed  28 standing committees  to oversee the activities of the House.

The committees included that of Information and Training, led by  Sam Oge, while the Committee  on  Public Compliant was chaired by Evans Bipi.

Also, the  Committee  for  Local Government Affairs was chaired by  Kelechi Worgu , while that of Judiciary was led by Jones Ogbonda. Finance Commitee is headed by Edisson Ehie.

The only member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Assembly, Josiah Olu  was appointed the Chairman, House Committee on Women Affairs.