The Senate passed a resolution yestherday Thursday 25th july empowering it and the House of Representatives to take over the legislative functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
In the resolution which concurs with that of the House on July 10, the Senate also flayed the attempt by five anti-Rotimi Amaechi lawmakers to impeach the state Assembly Speaker, Otelemaba Amachree.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, said after the decision that a meeting between the President of the Senate, David Mark, and the Speaker of the House, Aminu Tambuwal, would be held to draw up modalities for the running of the assembly.
Abaribe, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, explained that with the concurrence which is in line with Section 11(4) of the 1999 Constitution, the activities of the state legislature stood suspended.