Rivers Crisis Update: Hon. Michael Chinda, Wounded Rivers State Assembly Member Airlifted Abroad For Treatment.

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Hon. Michael Chinda Flown Abroad: Injured Rivers State Assembly Lawmaker In Coma. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, said in Port Harcourt on Friday that Michael Chinda, the wounded legislator in Rivers state, would be flown overseas for medical attention.

Chinda, representing Obio/Akpor constituency, the minister’s base, was wounded with the mace during a fight on the floor of the state assembly on July 8.

He is a member of the Group of 5 legislators that attempted to impeach the Speaker Otelemaba Amachree, igniting the fracas. Amachree’s group is made up of 28 legislators, with an an obvious overwhelming majority.

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VIDEO: Full report on The battle between Pro and Anti Rivers state governor in the state Assembly

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Shameless: Thugs invade Rivers State House of Assembly to impeach Speaker (VIDEO)

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The video captured an attack led by a member of the Rivers State house of assembly in an attempt to impeach the speaker of the house. The Speaker and 26 other members of the house are loyal to the governor, Rotimi Amaechi, while five others led by Evans Bapakaye Bipi, representing Ogu/Bolo constituency are loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience.  Mr. Bipi here is seen arriving the house with thugs, he later attacked the camera crew before breaking into the chambers to attack his colleagues.

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Video: Thugs invade Rivers State House of Assembly to impeach Speaker

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Niger Delta Youths Storm National Assembly

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Youths from Delta state have stormed the National Assembly in Abuja to protest government sale of oil mining licenses (OML) in their communities.

Emmanuel Uti, the legal adviser of the group, told Daily Trust that the sales of the licenses are fraudulent and they want the government to stop it immediately.

The protesting group, earlier thought to be militants, comprises youth leaders from Itsekiri, Ijaw, Ndokwa, Isoko and Uhrobos ethnic groups in Delta State.

The protesters came in about 10 buses belonging to the Delta state transport authority and blocked the entrance to the National Assembly, causing heavy traffic build up.

See Keyamo’s Suggestions To The National Assembly On How To Speed Up Corruption Cases

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Legal practitioner and human rights activist, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has sent proposals to the National Assembly on how to ensure speedy prosecution of corruption cases in the ongoing constitution amendment exercise. The lawyer’s memorandum was titled ‘Proposal for constitutional amendment to address the delay in criminal trials in Nigeria’.

In his “Proposal”, Keyamo explained that the gesture was informed by the fact that “the delays in the administration of criminal justice in Nigeria, especially corruption-related cases, have become a notorious fact”. He noted that prominent Nigerians, who are facing serious corruption cases, had devised ways of delaying their trials and “At the end of the day, the cases are lost because of the death of witnesses, loss of memory by witnesses, loss of exhibits, loss of interest and zeal by prosecutors and the aggrieved by effluxion of time, and the compromise of witnesses by the accused,” he said.