The House made the appeal while debating on the report of its Committee on Education, Science and Technology during plenary on Thursday.
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This was part of the resolutions reached by the house in a motion of urgent public importance moved by Anthony Agom (Okpokwu/PDP), during plenary on Wednesday.
The Benue House of Assembly has approved Governor Samuel Ortom’s request to appoint 26 Special Advisers.
The Benue House of Assembly has recalled the seven suspended members it suspended on July 27, 2018.
The Benue House of Assembly on Thursday passed the state’s 2019 budget of N199.7 billion.
The house suspended the chairmen on Monday during plenary in Makurdi.
Three months after the Appeal Court, Makurdi, declared him as the authentic legislator to represent Kwande West Constituency at the Benue House of Assembly, Joseph Boko has not been sworn-in.
In one of the motions Nungwa filed, the lawmaker sought to set aside an Appeal Court judgment that sacked him as the Kwande West State Constituency representative.
The Benue House of Assembly has defied an order of the Appeal Court directing it to swear in Joseph Boko to replace Benjamin Nungwa as member representing Kwande West constituency.
The suspended Chairmen were those of Ogbadibo Local Government Council, James Simon Akola and his Vice, Ameh Eugenia; Mr Denis Akura of Vandeikya Local Government Council; Vitalis Uaah of Gwer East Local Government Council.
Ortom had dragged Ikyange and seven others to court to halt their alleged move to impeach him.
The legislators took the decision on Friday in Makurdi during their sitting at the Old Banquet Hall of Government House, Makurdi.
Members of the Benue House of Assembly, who impeached their Speaker, Terkimbi Ikyange, on Tuesday, have claimed that they showed him the red card because he was “highhanded”.
The budget was passed on Tuesday on the floor of the House during plenary.
Ikyange said during the plenary to mark the commencement of the second Legislative Session in Makurdi that the assembly would conduct a public hearing on the bill in order to get inputs from critical stakeholders