“The provision of Section 124 of the Constitution upon which the Anambra State House of Assembly based its power to make law No. 7 of 2001, for the remuneration and salaries of holders of public offices including the Appellant clearly list offices which remuneration, salaries and allowances shall be charged upon the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State excluding the Appellant. The beneficiary offices are: the office of the Governor, Deputy Governor, Auditor-General for a State, Chairman and members of the State Civil service Commission, Chairman and members of the State Independent Electoral Commission and Chairman and members of the State Judicial Service Commission. That provision of the Constitution is in tandem with the provision of Section 6(1)(b) of the First Schedule of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission Act, CAP. 392 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990. There is no mention of the office of a Local Government Area Councillor as one of the beneficiaries of payment of salaries and emoluments from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State. I do not accept the submission by learned counsel for the Appellant that Section 32 (d) item N, Part 1 of the Third Schedule of the Constitution is an expansion to the scope of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission to include Local Government Area Councillors as beneficiaries of political office holders whose salaries and emoluments are charged upon the consolidated Revenue Fund of the State. The argument is incorrect and an attempt to read into the law what was not intended by the drafters of the Constitution. The Courts below were right to resist it and this Court cannot allow it to flourish. I hold therefore that the Law No.7 of 2001 which provide for salaries of public officers in Anambra State and for related purposes was enacted ultra vires the powers of the Anambra State House of Assembly. It is therefore void.” Per JOHN INYANG OKORO, JSC In NWOKEDI v. ANAMBRA STATE GOVT & ANOR (2022-LCER-46521-SC) (Pp 39 – 41; Paras E – B)