13th August, 2017
Kirike Town in Rivers on Sunday inaugurated a seven-man interim caretaker committee of its Council of Chiefs to administer the affairs of the council for three months.
The Amanyanabo of Kirike, HRM King Tamuno-Omisiki Ogube who inaugurated the committee in Port Harcourt, charged it to ensure that a straightforward Constitution was drafted.
Ogube said that the committee headed by Chief Ibileme Dappah had a tenure of three months.
According to him, the committee is to fashion out a draft constitution so that after the three months, an election will be held to elect new executives.
The former executives of the council were dissolved on July 22, 2017.
Ogube urged the committee to do justice to all manner of persons irrespective of the War Canoe House (clan) they hailed from.
He also charged the committee members to synergize and strategically coordinate themselves as executive officers and collaborate with other chiefs of the community.
The traditional ruler urged them to re-strategize their activities based on the high hopes and expectations of their people to make them have a new lease of life.
Ogube, who also inaugurated a five-man constitution drafting committee during the occasion, said that the Constitution should not be ambiguous and should be submitted in three months.
The committee is headed by Chief Akuro George-Dokube.
He, however, commended the Chiefs of the land for rising to the occasion of positioning the community to greater heights.
Ogube said that the inauguration of the two committees was a demonstration of the council of chiefs’ commitment to give the community its pride of place in its activities.
‘’It is evident that the hopes of the people of Kirike Town are high, therefore, in our commitment, we must endeavour to defend the land and the people,’’ he said.
In their respective response on behalf of other members, the Chairmen of the two committees, Dappah and Dokube thanked the traditional ruler and the council of chiefs for finding them worthy to serve.
They, however, promised to discharge their duties diligently and to the best of their ability, adding that they would not disappoint the confidence reposed in them.
The highlight of the occasion was the swearing-in of the two committees.