THE Senate will next week Tuesday
begin clause by clause debate on the reviewed 1999 Constitution, just as the
Deputy Senate President and Chairman of the Senate Constitution amendment
Committee, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Thursday laid the report.
Ekweremadu
Thursday laid the report which contained items that have been adopted by the
Joint session of the Committees of both the Senate and the House of
Representatives. Shortly after the deputy Senate President laid the report,
Senate President Bukola Saraki mandated the Clerk of the Senate, Nelson Ayewor
to as a matter of urgency, distribute copies of the report to the Senators to
ensure that they all get it, read it, study it to enable them make useful and
meaningful contributions next week when the debate would have commenced.
According to Saraki, the circulation of the report would enable Senators use
the weekend to study the report when the clause by clause of the report
commences next week Tuesday. Also briefing Journalists on the laid report,
Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Sabi Abdullahi
who noted that the constitution review has moved to another level. Ekweremadu’s
latest latest assignment as chairman, actually started January 13, 2016, just
as he has held the position of head the amendment of the Nigerian Constitution
for three consecutive National Assembly Sessions.
He was first appointed the
chairman of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review in
2008. That was in the 6th National Assembly. The idea of a Joint Committee was,
however, later jettisoned and he emerged the chairman of Senate Committee on
Constitution Review of the 6th Senate.
He ensured that there was the passage of
the first sets of amendments to the Constitution in 2010. Again in the 7th
Session, Ekweremadu also served as the chairman of the Constitution Review
Committee which led to the passage of the 2014 amendments to the Constitution
that were submitted to the President early 2015.
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