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Book Review - Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria: An Encyclopaedic Guide
Book: Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria: An Encyclopaedic Guide
Author: Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Chief Lecturer
Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Publisher: Worldwide Business Resources, United Kingdom
Pages: 254
Reviewer: E S Nwauche
Associate Professor of Law, Rivers State University of Science and Technology; Director, Centre for African Legal Studies Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
One of the enduring maxims of the common law is that ignorance of the law is no excuse. This maxim however flies in the face of democracy which is a system of government that thrives on the participation of citizens if it is to be sustainable, transparent, accountable, and meaningful. Since information is important to the critical engagement of the citizenry in the processes of governance it is no surprise that access to information is not only considered a right, there are now standard procedures to enable people to access information that is often within the control of government. In a developing country such as Nigeria information about legislation is also difficult to get even though there does not appear to be a deliberate attempt by governments to restrict access to legislation. Even though it is also strongly felt that legislation is the business of legal practitioners, considerable obstacles stand in the way of legal practitioners in ascertaining the corpus of legislation in all levels of government. Mr Leesi Ebenezer Mitee must be congratulated for a book that makes it easy for legal practitioners and laymen alike to discover the law.
The book Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria: An Encyclopaedic Guide is an excellent primary resource which organises the Laws of Rivers State from the Laws of Eastern Nigeria 1963 to the Laws of Rivers State 2010. Part 1 of the book contains a chronological table of the Laws of Rivers State in that period. Part 2 is an alphabetical table of the Laws of Rivers State for that period. Part 3 of the Book contains Laws of Rivers State between 1963 and 1988 and the author warns on p. 87 that except otherwise indicated, the Laws under this part may no longer be in force. What is educative about part 3 is that there is a short summary of every piece of legislation. Part 4 contains the Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999 and Laws made thereafter between 1999 and 2010. This part presents the current state of the law and like part 3 contains a more substantive summary of the legislation. In addition the subsidiary legislation for each law are set out. There are five Appendices which essentially define the legislative powers of the Rivers State Government and include the States (Creation and Transitional Provisions) Decree 1967; sections 4 and 105 of the 1999 Constitution. The Appendices also include the Second Schedule to the 1999 Constitution as well as the Revised Edition (Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria) Law 1991.
As a primary resource this is an excellent initiative which should not only be owned by every lawyer but every Rivers man and woman eager to abide by the law and take advantage of its contents. One is disturbed by the author’s caution that the laws so excellently arranged may not be exhaustive. If there are other laws not catalogued in this book, it is our hope that they should be reflected in the second edition of this book which should be out, we recommend, in no distant future.
Mr Ebenezer Leesi Mitee is to be congratulated for an excellent work and a groundbreaking treatise in legislation management. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to every law office, to every law faculty and the general public.
Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria: An Encyclopaedic Guide (2011)
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Rivers State was created out of the former Eastern Nigeria on 27 May 1967 by virtue of the States (Creation and Transitional Provisions) Decree No. 14 of 1967, and inherited Eastern Nigeria legislation in accordance with section 1(5) of the said Decree. Consequently, legislation applicable to Rivers State as at 27 May 1967 consisted of the Laws contained in The Revised Edition of The Laws of Eastern Nigeria 1963 and those enacted between 1963 and 1967. Thereafter, Edicts were promulgated by the successive Military Governors of Rivers State between 1968 and 28 May 1999, interspersed with brief periods of democratic Government that enacted Laws.
The first and only revision of the Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria was published as The Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999 containing legislation still in force at that time. It should be noted that by virtue of section 3 of the Revised Edition (Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria) Law 1991, there may be Laws which, although omitted in The Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999, still have the force of law, just like those included in it. Unfortunately, there is an operational disconnect between the enactment of legislation and their publication in the official form either in the Official Gazette or in bound annual volumes as required by law. Consequently, it becomes a Herculean task to search for every piece of legislation which may be hidden in volumes of files containing signed copies or among thousands of copies of the Official Gazette littered in several locations! Herein lies one aspect of the indispensability of this book, the first edition of which was published in 1994. Without this book, even lawyers may not be aware of some of the existing Laws.
This eBook shall be updated from time to time (throughout a particular year) to reflect changing developments in the Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria. Therefore, readers should remember to check for updates and re-download the latest version from their account free of charge. New editions shall be published yearly in this eBook format. The Laws of the Federation of Nigeria eBook, Nigerian Constitution eBook, Nigerian Law of Evidence eBook (containing full text of the Nigerian Evidence Act 2011), and Nigerian Company Law eBook (containing full text of the Nigerian Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990 with all amendments) shall be available soon in general eBook format and Amazon Kindle eBook format. More resources on Nigerian law are available on the companion Nigerian Law Resources website (www.nigerianlawresources.com).
Table of Contents:
1. Updates and Editions Information
2. Comments on this Book
3. Abbreviations and Guide Notes
4. Acknowledgments
5. About the Author
6. Introduction
7. Part 1: Chronological Table of Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria (Laws of Eastern Nigeria 1963 – 2011 Rivers State Laws)
8. Part 2: Alphabetical Table of Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria (Laws of Eastern Nigeria 1963 – 2011 Rivers State Laws)
9. Part 3: Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria (Laws of Eastern Nigeria 1963 – 1998 Rivers State Laws) with Notes
10. Part 4: Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999 (Revised Statute Book) and Laws made thereafter (1999 - 2011) with Notes
11. Chapters of the Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999
12. Appendices
The Author
The author, Leesi Ebenezer Mitee, holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree of the University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom). He is a Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, lecturer, and former Law Research Consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the Capacity Development for Social Reconciliation Project that provided the juridical foundation of the West Africa Moratorium on Small Arms (light weapons) in 1998. He became a Law Research Consultant to the Rivers State of Nigeria Government in 1994 based on his expertise in the Laws of Rivers State, as evidenced by the first edition of this book.
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File Size: 489 KB
Publisher: Worldwwide Business Resources, United Kingdom; 2 edition (24 Sep 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B005O052TA
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