Strong indication emerged Tuesday that constitution review exercise by the 9th National Assembly has hit the rocks on account of refusal of 25 State Houses of Assembly refusing to consider any of the 44 items sent to them for concurrence.
The affected 25 State Houses of Assembly, as lamented by Deputy President of the Senate Ovie Omo – Agege, requested the National Assembly to include establishment of State Police , State Judicial Council , streamlining of procedures for removing presiding officers of State Houses of Assembly and institutionalization of Legislative Bureaucracy in the Constitution.
Omo – Agege, who briefed journalists in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, said the position of the 25 states against the review exercise without the inclusion of the four demands, was communicated to them via a letter written to that effect by Conference of Speakers of State Assemblies.
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