Subcommittee for the Chamber on the amendment of the Constitution in Calabar

Subcommittee for the Chamber on the amendment of the Constitution in Calabar

The ad hoc ad hoc committee of Calabar (Core Reporter) began the exercise in Calabar, the capital of the state of the cross river to improve the resolution of the representative chamber.

Recall that the south area of the South will be held in Yenagoa, the capital of the state of Bayelsa composed of states delta, Delta and Bayelsa while the area consisting of rivers, Akwa Ibom and cross river are converged to Calabar.

Little upon arrival at the state capital, leader of the revision committee and minority leader of the House of Representatives, RT. Hon. Kingsley Chinda, a member who represents the federal electoral college of Obio/Akpor, guided the amendment committee of the Constitution to a request for courtesy to the Obong of Calabar, his eminence, Edidem Expo Okon Abasi Otu V where the facts of the exercise were invaded as unjustified eminence.

The Committee paid a courtesy call to the Cross State Government House and receiving the Chamber delegation, the Deputy Governor RT. Hon. Peter Odey has obtained support for exercise, but expressed concern for different limits of the state government, in particular as regards the authority of extracting minerals that currently fall within the exclusive reserve of the federal government. According to the deputy governor, this deputy has disabled the states from mining law that the basic development and growth among others are clogged.

The Nigerians who have sciamate the revision center have made various requests, presentations and submitted memo ranging from the creation of states, creation of the local council, creation of non -local governments, creation not of states, separation of current states and inclusion in states envisaged in the event of exclusion of their creations from the expected states and local governments, unification with kit and relatives to mention, but some. From the outline, only the citizens of Rivers, Akwa Ibom, the Cross River States were assigned to present Memo to the Committee. The request for creating the states that is present includes the state of Bori, the state of Ogoja, the state of the Atlantic while the creation of local governments presented a request from Etung Local Government Council a cross river to be cut into three, the local council of Odukpani also eager for a division into three just like the local government of Akpabuyo of Cross State searched for two other local governments in addition to that existing. The people of Igede del Benue State who occupy the current local governments of Obi/ Oju in the state of Benue have tried to reintegrate themselves with their kith and relatives in the state of cross River, the ABI and Yakur and in the event of the creation of the state of Ogoja, to be domiciled in the new state. In the meantime, the people of Aastern Obollo were at the on -board tips on the creation of the state of Obollo, but presented the same memo.

A common feature of requests was to affirm the profitability of the expected states ranging from the data of great population, necessary terrestrial mass, abundant human and mineral resources, common history etc.

While the different groups of women have obtained special seats for Women’s NGOs asked for amendments of the Constitution to upset the independent electoral commission (INC) of the dispute before swinging, creation of the electoral court for the areas of the government, among other areas, among others. The unions and the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) tried to be maintained in the exclusive list while the usual and magistrate workers have tried to be included in the meaning, context and interpretation of the employees/ judicial staff.