Amaechi asks lawmakers to initiate economic bills

Stakeholders seek law on energyLAWMAKERS in the country have been charged to initiate economic bills that would enable governments to run.Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi who stated that no government could survive without borrowing at the opening of a legislative capacity building programme for the Rivers State House of Assembly in Tinapa, Calabar, yesterday, told the lawmakers to initiate economic bills that would enable government to run.Meanwhile, all Houses of Assemblies in the States of the federation have been advised to set up energy committees that would enact energy laws peculiar to each state.The advice was contained in a statement jointly signed by the Special adviser to the President on Energy who is the Director- General, Energy Commission of Nigeria Prof. Abubakar Sani Sambo and the Director National Centre for Petroleum Research and Development Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, Dr Muhammad Bello Abubakar.According to Amaechi, 'Legislation includes economic governance and economic governance entails that the government must borrow or access funds in order to run its activities.'The governor who admitted rejecting advice to borrow to enable him complete projects further said: 'It was only when I was finishing my first tenure that I realised that if I don't start borrowing, I may leave abandoned projects. If we do not hurry, we would leave the mother of abandoned projects in Rivers State.
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