Voting on the report of the adhoc House of
Representatives Committee on
Amendment of the 1999 Constitution
commenced last night, with the removal of
immunity clause for president, governors
and their deputies
The lawmakers also okay local government
autonomy and relocation of labour
exclusive to concurrent list scaling through.
For over 12 hours, members of the House
of Representatives voted and waited for the
results of the 87 -clause amendment.
All amendments were approved by the
House. These include the removal of
immunity for presidents, vice, governors,
deputy; abrogation of State Independent
Electoral Commission (SIEC), as INEC will
now conduct local government elections;
Independent candidature approval; and
states can now generate and distribute
electricity.
Speaker of the House, Hon Aminu
Tambuwal, while thanking all stakeholders,
assured Nigerians that the exercise is
ongoing and will continue after the recess
for items not deliberated during the voting.
According to sources who saw the available
results, these two amendments were ready
and had got the mandatory two-thirds
majority votes of members of the House.
The slow pace of the exercise is due to the
manual method of voting adopted by the
House after several attempts to use the
electronic option failed.
The plan to vote electronically using
computer palm tablets procured and
mounted by NIGCOMSAT was ditched for
manual voting after engineers of the
NIGCOMSAT tried fruitlessly to make the
system work.
Accreditation of members in attendance
started at about 1pm untill two-thirds
majority quorum needed for voting to
commence was formed with 282 members
present.
The manual voting commenced after
copies of the ballot booklets were
distributed to representatives of state
caucuses to share among members of their
states where the options of yes and no were
provided beside the clauses for
amendment.
Curiously, members of the Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN) led by the
minority leader, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila,
were huddled together at the far end back
row of the Green Chamber during the
clause-by-clause voting that lasted close to
an hour.
Afterwards, the ballot papers were
gathered back and submitted by each state
caucus leader to the House clerk whose
staff immediately commenced the collation
process as members waited patiently.

Source: www.sardaunamagazine.com/index.php/component/k2/item/2058-constitution-amendment-reps-remove-immunity-for-president-governors

good 1 by d house of rep






Pls y pple dey celebrate 1st 2 comment?Any tym am commentin 1st, i bliv d thread z irrelevant

Immunity removal DOA.
Do we really want a president every Haruna, Okoro and Shola will be dragging to court daily?

I support removal of immunity for criminal proceedings not total immunity removal.