Rivers Assembly Faction Passes Bill To Transfer Girls School To Govt

A faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly under the speakership of Hon. Martin Amaewhule has passed the Rivers State education (Return of Schools) Amendment Bill to return Kalabari Girls High School, Buguma to the Rivers State Government.
The bill was considered and passed during the faction’s Second Legislative Sitting of the Second Session of the Tenth Assembly. The bill amends the Rivers State Education (Return of Schools) Law No. 1 of 2005, which returned certain schools to their original owners.
Contributing to the debate on the Report of the House Committee on Education, members expressed their support for the Bill, stating that the school should be returned to the government for better management. They added that the school would now under the amendment be well positioned to cater for the educational needs of the girl-child in Asari Toru Local Government Area and beyond.
The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule, commended the sponsor of the Bill, Hon. Tekenari Granville, stating that the intendment of the Bill was laudable because it simply sought to take the Kalabari Girls High School, Buguma from the church that it was erroneously ceded to and return it to the government for effective management.
Amaewhule added that the essence of the Bill was to empower the State government to take over the administration of the school to make it serve the purpose for which it was built.
In line with its rules, the House dissolved into Committee of the Whole and gave further consideration to the clauses of the Bill before reverting to Plenary to pass the Bill.