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Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by Nobody: 8:49am On Jul 28, 2017
Samuel Ogundipe

Members of the House of Representatives disagreed with their Senate counterparts on nine issues when they picked up key elements of the constitution for amendments Thursday.

The Senate held a similar exercise on Wednesday when about 97 senators took decisions to amend up to 33 laws in the Constitution.

Those amendments were picked up by House members for consideration on Thursday.

Both chambers are forging ahead with the amendments even though Nigerians from different ethnic, political and religious affiliations continue to argue that the Constitution itself should be discarded and a fundamentally different one be promulgated in its stead.

Procedurally, the House shouldn’t have bothered voting on the amendment bills that had already failed in the Senate yesterday, but Speaker Yakubu Dogara said the House decided to take its own votes on those issues “in order to put its position on the record.”

By most measures, an amendment to the Constitution is considered a Herculean task: The House and Senate will have to agree on every section of the Constitution listed for amendment.

Each of the amendments that both the House and Senate agreed to will then be forwarded to the 36 states for ratification. Two-thirds of the state Houses of Assembly (i.e.: 24 state assemblies) will have to agree on the amendments before being returned to Abuja where the Clerk of the National Assembly will then send them to the president for assent.

Any amendment that fails to muster two-thirds of Houses of Assembly automatically fails and will be dropped from the list of bills to be transmitted to the president.

For instance, a National Assembly amendment that granted autonomy to state Houses of Assembly ironically failed in 2010 because it didn’t garner two- thirds support when the Houses of Assembly considered it.

Going by Thursday’s development, only 24 amendment bills, out of the 33 considered, will now go to be forwarded to Houses of Assembly for at least two-thirds to ratify.

Here are the nine amendment bills that the House passed today but which Senate rejected yesterday or the Senate rejected yesterday but which House passed today:
These nine will no longer be part of the amendments to be sent to the Houses of Assembly.

*Thirty-five per cent affirmative action for women as ministers.
Fate: Passed by the House but was rejected by the Senate.

*Appointment of Minister from the FCT
Fate: Passed by the Senate but rejected by the House.

*Change of names of some LG councils
Fate: Passed by the Senate yesterday but was rejected by the House today.

*Citizenship and Indigeneship
Fate: Passed by the Senate but rejected by the House.

*Removal of law making power from Executive Arm (National Youth Service Corps).
Fate: Passed by the Senate but rejected by the House.

*Removal of law making power from Executive Arm (National Security Agencies Act).
Fate: Passed by the Senate but rejected by the House.

*Removal of law making power from Executive Arm (National Complaints Commission).
Fate: Passed by the Senate but rejected by the House.

*Removal of law making power from Executive Arm (Land Use Act)
Fate: Passed by the Senate but rejected by the House.

*Deletion of State Independent National Electoral Commission (SIEC) from the Constitution.
Fate: Passed by the Senate but rejected by the House.


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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by Ariba2(m): 12:45pm On Jul 28, 2017
Guseh:
Samuel Ogundipe




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great , first to comment. Dedicated to my wife and daughter and my little boi on the way. God bless

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by Cutezt2: 12:45pm On Jul 28, 2017
Ok

The guy above me is a babalawo, he took my shine

cheesy

By the way, they should please agree on removing our tourist president, their names will go down as some of the best lawmakers Nigeria has ever seen.

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by holatin(m): 12:46pm On Jul 28, 2017
hope out of dat 33, the one that support huge allowance is among ?

minimal wages to our senate

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by carrykelv: 12:46pm On Jul 28, 2017
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by kbams241: 12:47pm On Jul 28, 2017
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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by sleemfesh: 12:48pm On Jul 28, 2017
Ok.
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by haywhy1026(m): 12:49pm On Jul 28, 2017
progress is we want but stagnation is want we can see shocked

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by Nobody: 12:49pm On Jul 28, 2017
too much power at the centre n these selfish politicians are so comfortable with it. There should be dissolution of power to the states for effective democracy.
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by crazygod(m): 12:49pm On Jul 28, 2017
Can someone explain the NYSC own to me?

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by bekpo(m): 12:51pm On Jul 28, 2017
The Nigeria senate is an aberation.
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by HAH: 12:52pm On Jul 28, 2017
I was very angry with house expecially with allowing SIEC.

Local government need autonomy autonomy siec must been truly independent independent bad as inec is it is by far better the nonsense called siec

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by FreshMekanik: 12:53pm On Jul 28, 2017
yeye de smell
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by jomoh: 12:54pm On Jul 28, 2017
All of them are rogues.
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by Adeyinka12(m): 12:55pm On Jul 28, 2017
why did they vote down this bill

#ConstitutionReview
Bill 7: State creation and boundary adjustment
Yes: 47
No: 48
Abstain: 0
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by timilehing(m): 12:56pm On Jul 28, 2017
Bunch of thieves. Discard the useless constitution
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by maj007(m): 12:57pm On Jul 28, 2017
I hope they will disagree on the NFIA Bill too; otherwise they are just another group of thieves.
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by Abfinest007(m): 12:58pm On Jul 28, 2017
d Senate President is d President of this country he and his gang of criminals will only support a bill that favours them
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by JJBROS(m): 12:59pm On Jul 28, 2017
THEY PASS THINGS FOR THEIR OWN INTEREST NOT FOR THE MASSES
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by EmeeNaka: 1:03pm On Jul 28, 2017
Saraki Senate is better than Dogara's House. It's clear the House of Rep are the enemy of Nigeria

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by edo3(m): 1:04pm On Jul 28, 2017
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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by GetHelpWorldwid: 1:05pm On Jul 28, 2017
So which one will stand? Senate or house?

NB: I'm not Nigerian
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by ncha373(m): 1:05pm On Jul 28, 2017
They also rejected (the both house) desolation of centra power.....I fink the state has more power
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by obembet(f): 1:06pm On Jul 28, 2017
Ariba2:
great , first to comment. Dedicated to my wife and daughter and my little boi on the way. God bless

Congrats.. So summarize the write up for me make I comment
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by solid3(m): 1:08pm On Jul 28, 2017
These house of reps members don't know what they are doing?

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by MEILYN(m): 1:12pm On Jul 28, 2017
GetHelpWorldwid:
So which one will stand? Senate or house?

NB: I'm not Nigerian
It's obvious you didn't read the article. I doubt you aren't a Nigerian because Nigerians don't read.

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by three: 1:14pm On Jul 28, 2017
Unfortunately, unlike some other arm chair critics, we cannot opt in and opt out of Democracy at will.

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by Koolking(m): 1:18pm On Jul 28, 2017
Those areas deliberated upon have no positive impact on the good citizens of Nigeria. Thank God it was rejected by the House.


Salient issues were not touched. Shame!

Issues like removal of impunity and immunity bestowed on Governors.

Scrapping of Quota and Federal Character System.

Re-positioning or scrapping of Local government. Local Government in Nigeria is a 'White Elephant' with no real impact to the grassroot people. It's a financial hemorrhage and absolute waste of tax payers money.

Re-writing and re-modeling our laws to mete out appropriate punishment to the guilty as charged. With stiffer punishment to public office holders. Incorporating death sentences to embezzlement of public funds

Making politics and rulership (not leadership) less lucrative as opposed to the present day politics in Nigeria


Let start with a few issues mentioned above, other things will fall into place gradually

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Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by GoodMuyis(m): 1:19pm On Jul 28, 2017
Cutezt2:
Ok

The guy above me is a babalawo, he took my shine

cheesy

By the way, they should please agree on removing our tourist president, their names will go down as some of the best lawmakers Nigeria has ever seen.

Why Did you allow him to eat from the prepare vulture babalawos gave to you grin
nkan se
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by Ariba2(m): 1:21pm On Jul 28, 2017
[quote author=obembet post=58914363]

Congrats.. So summarize the write up for me make I comment[/quo

U better go read for yourself and understand from your own perspective.
Re: Constitutional Amendment: See The Nine Key Areas Senate, House Of Reps Disagree. by Babatundecash(m): 1:23pm On Jul 28, 2017
EmeeNaka:
Saraki Senate is better than Dogara's House. It's clear the House of Rep are the enemy of Nigeria
Br.Dogara led House of Reps. Is not a rubber stamp.......the last time I check,Saraki is a medical doctor and Dogara is a legal practisioner but I'm highly dissapointed in the House of Reps.for not granting Local Government autonomy and for your info most of this bill will fail at the state Assembly level since most of them are rubber stamp to the state Govt......most of these bills fail in 2010 at the state level due to the influence of state Governors and finally I don't see more than 10 bills out of the remaining 24 before the state assembly remove their own being veto to by the President.

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