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State Creation: Senate Makes U-Turn, Receives Request For Bori State by JECBOSS: 8:58am On Nov 18, 2013 |
Deputy Senate President and Chairman of the Senate Constitution Review Committee (CRC) Ike Ekweremadu has reopened the foreclosed matter of state creation, a move that will predictably open a floodgate of proposals previously ignored by the same Senate CRC. Ekweremadu had, while submitting the constitution review report months back, said all request for state creation submitted by stakeholders did not meet key constitutional requirements, resulting in the non- inclusion of recommendations for state creation in the report of the Senate review exercise. At the weekend, Ekweremadu assured a delegation of Bori State Movement led by Second Republic Senator, Dr. Cyrus Nunieh Gbene that new states can still be created provided such requests fulfill the provisions set out in section 8 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The Second Republic Senator (1979-1983) led the delegation to the Senate CRC to submit a memorandum, in fulfillment of section 8 of the 1999 Constitution, with a request for the creation of Bori State from the present Rivers State. Ekweremadu announced that the Senate CRC will review the Bori State request and if the request meets constitutional provisions, the National Assembly would then forward the request to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for referendum on the request. Senator Nunieh at the meeting appealed to the Senate CRC to help create Bori State in order to give the people in Rivers South East senatorial district a sense of belonging. Senator Nunieh said agitators for new states at the Constitution conference in 1996, including Ekiti, Ebonyi and Gombe, were granted their wishes, leaving out only the Ogoni people and their neighbours. He disclosed that when created, Bori State would comprise Khana, Gokhana, Tai, Eleme, Opobo/Nkoro, Oyigbo and Andoni local government areas made up of Ogoni, Andoni, Opobo, Nkoro, Oyigbo and Eleme nationalities. His words: “Many (states) that were recommended alongside Ogoni East Rivers, like Gombe, Zamfara, Ekiti, Ebonyi are now states. So, my colleagues in the Senate lobbied me to support them and I did. When my own came, they also supported me. The drama over why Ogoni East Rivers was not created is still a mystery. “We are not saying that all the resources in our area should be for us; we know that we must give something to the federal or the federal should give us something. You would remember that there the Ogoni crisis at a time. The crisis came and we, the Ogoni thought we could use force, fight our way through and get to but we couldn’t. “There are arguments out there in the media that even some of the states created cannot sustain themselves but we cannot be a permanent colony to the rest of the country. “The permanent cure to the problems in Ogoni is to create this state. Shell is not operating in that place. No grammar, no force can compel our people to permit oil exploration. We have oil fields, the viability aspect is there, think of the industries in our area, comprising the refineries, the sea ports, Onne refinery and we have oil and gas which have been confirmed that we have not even started to explore. “The issue of state creation is pinching the Ogoni people and the people in Bori State...I am begging you to please consider our request because those who have states now will tell you that there is no need to create new states...We have several oil fields, power stations...Ogoniland is so tense. Let us look for what we can do to have peace. One of the secrets for peace in the area is to create this state. It will also help Nigeria as a whole.” http://leadership.ng/news/181113/state-creation-senate-makes-u-turn-receives-request-bori-state |
Re: State Creation: Senate Makes U-Turn, Receives Request For Bori State by Asabeq(f): 9:00am On Nov 18, 2013 |
Abeg who will be the Governor of that state,I wanna be the 1st lady! 1 Like |
Re: State Creation: Senate Makes U-Turn, Receives Request For Bori State by danot1030: 9:12am On Nov 18, 2013 |
Asabeq: Abeg who will be the Governor of that state,I wanna be the 1st lady! remember that this kind of long throat that led Clara to the state of a phsyco..... just saying anyway. 2 Likes |
Re: State Creation: Senate Makes U-Turn, Receives Request For Bori State by kubi240: 9:31am On Nov 18, 2013 |
lets creat more states so that d resource should be spread evenly |
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