{"id":2709,"date":"2025-03-14T07:37:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:38:42","slug":"rivers-crisis-state-assembly-in-another-troubled-water-wants-dss-to-probe-cj-over-alleged-age-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/rivers-crisis-state-assembly-in-another-troubled-water-wants-dss-to-probe-cj-over-alleged-age-forgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Crisis: State Assembly in another troubled water\u00a0 ……. Wants DSS to Probe CJ over alleged age forgery\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Our Reporter<\/div>\n
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Barely 24 hours in the fight against the state governor,\u00a0 Siminalayi Fubara,\u00a0 Rivers State House of Assembly has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to investigate the State Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Amadi for alleged age falsification.<\/div>\n
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The call for investigation of the State Chief Judge was made following a motion by the leader of the Assembly, Hon. Major Jack during plenary on Thursday.<\/div>\n
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Recall that the Deputy Speaker of Rivers\u00a0 Assembly, Dumle Maol, had raised an allegation of age falsification against the Chief Judge of the state, Simeon Amadi a couple of days ago.<\/div>\n
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He said, \u201cThese documents before me simply say that the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Simeon Amadi, falsified his age in service. Mr Speaker, that is a very serious allegation, and I do hope that this House takes legislative notice.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The House debated on the topic and resolved to write a letter to the Director of the DSS to do its investigation and revert to the House on their findings.<\/div>\n
In his remark, Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule, called for an investigation into the alleged age falsification against the state chief judge, Justice Chibuzor Amadi.<\/div>\n
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Amaehwule also accused the state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara of barring all heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies not to appear before the House or assist the lawmakers in the conduct of investigations.<\/div>\n
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He said, \u201cThe documents are only suggesting a case of age falsification by the honourable Chief Judge of the state, Simeon Amadi. What it means is that there has to be an investigation to that effect.<\/div>\n
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“Though the House is empowered to conduct investigation by the provisions of Section 128 of the Constitution, the Governor of the State has barred all heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies not to appear before the House or assist the House in the conduct of investigation.<\/div>\n
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“So, the House is calling on the Department of State Service to institute an investigation on the alleged age falsification by the Chief Judge with a view to ascertaining the veracity or otherwise of the allegation, which will be forwarded to the National Judicial Council (NJC).”<\/div>\n
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After a voice vote, the House eventually agreed to write the DSS to investigate the age falsification allegation against the Chief Judge.<\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, the Speaker had asked all Committees to endeavour to submit their reports to the House before the House proceeds on recess, particularly, the House Committee on Public Complaints and Petitions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Our Reporter Barely 24 hours in the fight against the state governor,\u00a0 Siminalayi Fubara,\u00a0 Rivers State House of Assembly has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to investigate the State Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Amadi for alleged age falsification. The call for investigation of the State Chief Judge was made following a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[346,1699,1059,1698,212],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime","tag-allegation","tag-ascertaining-documents","tag-crisis","tag-falsification","tag-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}