Rivers State was produced out of the previous Eastern Nigeria on 27 May 1967 by virtue of the States (Creation and Transitional Arrangements) Decree No. 14 of 1967, and acquired Eastern Nigeria legislation in accordance with section 1( 5) of the stated Decree. Legislation appropriate 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 and1967 Afterwards, Edicts were promulgated by the succeeding Military Governors of Rivers State in between 1968 and 28 May 1999, interspersed with quick durations of democratic Government that enacted Laws. The very first and just revision of the Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria was released as The Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999 consisting of legislation still in force at that time. It ought to be kept in mind 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. Sadly, there is an operational disconnect in between the enactment of legislation and their publication in the main kind either in the Official Gazette or in bound annual volumes as required by law.Consequently, it becomes a Burden to search for every piece of legislation which might be hidden in volumes of files including signed copies or among countless copies of the Authorities Gazette cluttered in a number of locations! Herein lies one aspect of the indispensability of this book, the first edition of which was released in1994 Without this book, citizens, businesses, organisations, law enforcement agencies, lawyers, Customary Court Judges, Magistrates, High Court Judges, Federal High Court Judges, Justices of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, numerous Rivers State Government Ministries and Departments, and so on might not be aware of a few of the existing laws of Rivers State that are in force. The Author Dr Leesi Ebenezer Mitee holds a doctoral degree (PhD) of Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Master of Laws degree (LLM) of the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom; Barrister-at-Law postgraduate professional law practice certificate (BL) of the Nigerian Law School, Lagos, Nigeria; Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) and Higher National Diploma (HND) in Town Planning and Country Planning, both of the Rivers State University, Nigeria. Leesi, a former legal research study national specialist to the United Nations Advancement Programme (UNDP) on the 1998 PCASED project and a legal research study consultant to the government of Rivers State of Nigeria on the Laws of Rivers State, is the international pioneer supporter of the universal acknowledgment of the right of open door to public legal info as a stand-alone or substantive human right. He went over the concept of free access to public legal info and the proposal for its universal recognition elaborately in his 628- page PhD thesis, The Human Right of Open Door to Public Legal Details: Propositions for its Universal Recognition and for Adequate Public Access. His Human Right of Open Door to Public Legal Details (HURAPLA) site (publiclegalinformation.com/) is committed to actualising the law-reform and policy-relevant propositions and suggestions in his PhD thesis. Dr Mitee’s special research interests include different problems in the principle of the human right of open door to public legislation; legal informatics or legal infotech (the application of information technology to legal processes and specialised legal information systems); public access to indigenous popular law; native rights; and legal systems. More resources on Dr Leesi Ebenezer Mitee’s books are readily available on his Human Right of Open Door to Public Legal Information (HURAPLA) site (publiclegalinformation.com/) and PublishThem.Com website (publishthem.com/ ).
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