RIVERS State government has vowed to appeal against the judgment of a Port Harcourt High Court that prohibited the Commission of Inquiry into the fracas that rocked the state House of Assembly from going ahead with it's work.
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The state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mrs Ibim Semenitari, who made this known in a statement in Port Harcourt, yesterday, said:
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"For the avoidance of doubt and for purposes of clarification, the Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, CON, as governor of Rivers State, has powers under the law to commission an inquiry into any matter or issue.
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However, such matters arose as the enabling law does not state the categories or circumstances in which His Excellency can be prevented from constituting such inquiry. Consequently, the exercise of such power does not make him a judge any more than the appointment of a High Court Judge also makes him a judge in any matter concerning him before such judge that he appointed.