{"id":38851,"date":"2024-07-15T12:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=38851"},"modified":"2024-07-15T12:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T12:34:21","slug":"amaewhule-led-rivers-assembly-halts-governor-fubaras-spending-until-budget-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/15\/amaewhule-led-rivers-assembly-halts-governor-fubaras-spending-until-budget-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaewhule-Led Rivers Assembly Halts Governor Fubara&#8217;s Spending Until Budget Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State House of Assembly, under the leadership of Martin Amaewhule, has taken decisive action to halt all expenditures by Governor Siminalayi Fubara until he presents the state budget before the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>During Monday&#8217;s plenary session, the assembly enforced this measure following a seven-day ultimatum issued to the governor to submit the 2024 budget for legislative review.<\/p>\n<p>Major Jack, the Leader of the House, brought forward the motion, informing members about the expiration of the ultimatum and stressing the constitutional obligation of the governor to present the budget.<\/p>\n<p>After deliberations, the House voted to freeze the Rivers State Consolidated Revenue Account, effectively preventing the Fubara administration from accessing state funds.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated July 8, 2024, signed by Amaewhule and delivered to Governor Fubara, the Assembly cited constitutional breaches as grounds for their action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State House of Assembly, under the leadership of Martin Amaewhule, has taken decisive action to halt all expenditures by Governor Siminalayi Fubara until he presents the state budget before the lawmakers. During Monday&#8217;s plenary session, the assembly enforced this measure following a seven-day ultimatum issued to the governor to submit the 2024 budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38861,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851\/revisions\/38861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}