Directs CNA to transmit 35 Bills to Buhari for Assent

***27 State Assemblies Forward 35 Constitution Amendment Bills To NASS

9 Bills rejected out of the 44 Proposed Amendments

The National Assembly has directed the Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Sani Tambuwal to as a matter of urgency, transmit the 35 Bills that have so far met the requirement of the provision of Section 9(2) of the Constitution to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent in line with the provisions of the Acts Authentication Act.

Meanwhile, the National Assembly has eaten the humble pie by bowing to the 36 State Governors over the refusal of autonomy for Local Government Councils as proposed in the 44 constitution amendment bills forwarded to State Houses of Assembly for concurrence in March 2022.

With the forwarding of the 35 Bills to President Buhari for assent, nine have so far been rejected by the State Houses of Assembly.

Out of the 44 constitution alteration bills forwarded to State Houses of Assembly for concurrence, only 35 were voted for by 24 out of the 36 States Houses of Assembly with complete exclusion of Financial and Administrative autonomies for local government councils.

Twenty-seven State Houses of Assembly have however forwarded their resolutions on 35 constitutional amendment bills to the National Assembly, with nine states remaining.

The State Houses of Assembly that were yet to forward their resolutions to the National Assembly are: Gombe, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kwara, Oyo, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba, and Zamfara.

The National Assembly has also asked the remaining nine state Houses of Assembly that were yet to forward their resolutions on the constitutional amendment bills to do so in order to fulfil their constitutionally imposed legislative obligation.

Resolutions of the Senate yesterday were sequel to a motion titled, ” Passage of Constitution( Fifth) Alteration Bill’s, 2023 sponsored by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, APC, Delta Central and supported by 65 other Senators.

The motion was presented yesterday at the Chamber by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, APC, Ekiti Central on behalf of Senator Ovie Omo – Agege who as Deputy President of the Senate, Chairs the Senate Committee on Constitution Review.

Recall that the National Assembly had through its Senator Omo- Agege led joint Ad – hoc Committee on constitution review in October last year lampooned the State Governors for not allowing the various State Houses of Assembly from concurring with constitution amendments proposals for Financials and Administrative autonomies for the 774 local government councils.

The Committee had threatened the State Governors that would mobilise the organised labour, particularly local government employees against the various state governments on the bills for the required concurrence.

The directive that the CNA should forward the Bills to President Buhari for assent is coming three months after the threat.

Some of the nine bills that failed passage at the State Houses of Assembly were: the one that sought for Abrogation of the State Joint Local Government Account and Provide for a special Account into which shall be paid all Allocations due to Local Government Councils from the Federation Account and from the Government of the State; and for Related Matters
The one on the establishment of Local Government as a Tier of Government by Guaranteeing their Democratic Existence, Tenure; and Related Matters."

The one that sought for Institutionalization of Legislative Bureaucracy in the Constitution; and for Related Matters as well as the one that sought for the inclusion of Presiding Officers of the National Assembly in the Membership of the National Security Council; and for Related Matters, among others

Earlier according to Senator Bamidele, the 35 items listed on the order paper were: Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 3 (Change of Names of Afikpo North and Afikpo South LocalGovernment Areas (Ebonyi State),

Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 4 (Change of Name of Kunchi Local Government Area (Kano State); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 5 (Change of Names of Egbado North and Egbado South Local Government Areas (Ogun State) and Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 7 (Correction of the name of Atigbo Local Government Area (Oyo State).

Others are: Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 8 (Correction of Name of Obia/Akpor Local Government Area (Rivers State);

Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No 9 (Financial autonomy of State legislatures and State Judiciary); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 10 (Enforcement of Legislative Summon); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 11 (Inauguration of Members-Elect), Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 21 (Deletion of reference in the Constitution to the provisions of the Criminal Code, Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Act, Criminal Procedure Code or Evidence Act), Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 22 (Provision for Intervening Events in the Computation of Tine for the Determination of Pre-Election Petitions, Election Petitions and Appeals therefrom).

Others were : Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 24 (Expansion of the Interpretation of Judicial Office); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 25 (Appointment of Secretary of the National Judicial Council);

Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 29 (Devolution of Powers (Airports));

Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 30 (Devolution of Powers (Fingerprints, identification and criminal records).

Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 31 (Devolution of Powers (Correctional Services), Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 32 (Devolution of Powers (Railways), Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 33 (Devolution of Powers (National Grid System); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 39 (Power to enforce compliance of remittance of Accruals into the Federation Account and Review of Revenue Allocation Formula) and Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 40 (Independence of Certain bodies).

Also passed were: Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 41 (Removal of Transitional Law-making Powers of the Executive, Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 43 (Domestication of Treaties); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 44 (Timeline for the Presentation of Appropriation Bills); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 45 (Timeframe for the Submission of the Names of Ministerial or Commissioner Nominees); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 48 (Power to summon the President and Governors);

Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 49 (Authorization of Expenditure); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 50 (Replacement of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation with the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Government); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 51 (Creation of the Office of Accountant-General of the Federal Government), and Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 53 (Separation of the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and of the State from the office of the Minister or Commissioner for Justice).

Others were: Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 54 (State of the Nation and State of the State Address); Bill No. 55 (Composition of Members of the Council of State), Bill No. 57 (Restriction on Formation of Political Parties); Bill No. 62 (Correction in the Definition of the Boundary of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 63 (Fundamental Human Rights); Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 65 (Food Security) and Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 66 (Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps).

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politicoNG:
Directs CNA to transmit 35 Bills to Buhari for Assent

***27 State Assemblies Forward 35 Constitution Amendment Bills To NASS

9 Bills rejected out of the 44 Proposed Amendments



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Country of the fantastically corrupt.

One continues to wonder why local government accounts are still controlled by state governments.

State governments are unable to bring developments to the doorsteps of the citizens. Communities suffer largely because of poor funding. Funds which under normal circumstances should be allocated to local councils to make communities better are controlled by state governments.

Unfortunately we find the Senate filled with ex governors, who work hand in hand with governors and state assemblies to block the allocation from going straight from the federation account to the local government accounts.

Sincerely Nigeria can get better if this correction is made.

why wouldn't they bow down when some Senators and house members are aspiring to be Governor's while present governors are aspiring to be Senators and House members #Organised_Crime



Swap deal

We need to start dragging our governors. How can you be against local government autonomy? They actually do not mean well for us. All they do is not install figure head local government caretaker chairmen and do their biddings

Cantonese:
One continues to wonder why local government accounts are still controlled by state governments.

and they want the FG to give them more powers but they are not ready to shed some of their powers in favor of the local government

We are really not serious in this country

One step forward... two steps backwards
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Nigeria's Democracy just suffered another huge setback...

Who will rescue this Country for heaven's sake

Amendments that favours legislative and judicial autonomy were passed, but amendment that will bring governance closer to the masses, Local Government Autonomy was rejected.... wickedness!

The politicians are not ready to free this Country..

Sad!

Very Sad!!!

Thunderstorm strike urchins and their lifeless old druggie

This is one of the things Nigerian need the most.
Local government autonomy.
But sadly this same bandwagon will still be the one running it.
State Government always complaining about Federal government not giving them chance for State police.

The same state is oppressing the local government.

Imagine Wike has Rivers state police right under his palm… just imagine… Buhari and DSS will be a learner.

Scrap the national assembly.

Do u knw the reason? The reason is because most of this NA members are governorship candidates of their various parties and they can't afford to risk what they stand to lose if they eventually win. Our politicians are the most short sighted pple in the world. They don't knw what planning 4 the future means, they only think nd deliberate abt what they stand to gain in the present

Anything to move our darling nation forward is all we want at [b][/b]

Nigeria will be great again in our lifetime.

God bless Nigeria and all sane, good , honest and hardworking Nigerians.

We Rise

Stupid and corrupt Nigerians

They are just so allergic to doing he right thing

What do you expect from crooks and th**fs

They are not useless rubberstamp NASS stooges for nothing.

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Anything to move our darling nation forward is all we want at

Do you mean anything to move the nation backward further more than your dullard master did🙄🙄🙄

"How many times will they tell you that Nigeria is not for you" according to Asari Dokubo.
The motive is to keep the government far from the people as always, it is an oppressive system called democracy.

If the local Government autonomy doesn’t fly, thats like 50% of the aim of constitutional amendment defeated

Very shameful indeed. Where is Nigeria heading to? An Atiku presidency won't take this, all governor's must seat up. Atiku remains the only candidate who continually makes his stands clear on RESTRUCTURING.

A vote for Atiku is a vote for true federalism.

Organised crime.

It's a shame

I don't expect anything serious from the crop of Representatives there
Reason we all need to vote Obi to reform our institutions especially INEC so that 95% of them don't return there through credible election.

sapele914:
Country of the fantastically corrupt.

Supported by people like you with the cries of structures.. These are your structures

Developed cities function due to efficient local governments

Cantonese:
One continues to wonder why local government accounts are still controlled by state governments.

State governments are unable to bring developments to the doorsteps of the citizens. Communities suffer largely because of poor funding. Funds which under normal circumstances should be allocated to local councils to make communities better are controlled by state governments.

Unfortunately we find the Senate filled with ex governors, who work hand in hand with governors and state assemblies to block the allocation from going straight from the federation account to the local government accounts.

Sincerely Nigeria can get better if this correction is made.

Realistically it's not actually totally wise to give LG absolute autonomy, it will be a recipe for disaster, however it can be done in such a way that the state govs won't have access to their funds like they do now thereby guaranteeing the effective running of LG..

Akfrenzy:
why wouldn't they bow down when some Senators and house members are aspiring to be Governor's while present governors are aspiring to be Senators and House members #Organised_Crime



Swap deal

pls reread it.. The Senator gave LG autonomy, it was the state house of assembly that rejected it serving as a mouthpiece to the governors.. The senators actually tried by giving the autonomy

politicoNG:
Directs CNA to transmit 35 Bills to Buhari for Assent

***27 State Assemblies Forward 35 Constitution Amendment Bills To NASS

9 Bills rejected out of the 44 Proposed Amendments



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/01/constitution-review-nass-bows-to-governors-on-refusal-of-lg-autonomy/

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What a country.
No wonder the country is footdragging in the common wealth of Nations. This phase shall surely pass

I have always said it that one major hindrance to Nigeria's growth are the state governors. They are vile, wicked, callous, nefarious and shockingly evil. They are against Nigeria's development because of there selfish ambitions and fear of losing there control over the local areas. I pray Nigeria wakes up one day and see that our number problem are the state governors.