1999 Constitution Review: Senate Receives Conference Report

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1999 Constitution Review: Senate Receives Conference Report

The report of the Conference Committee on the Review of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (further amendment) Bill 2014 has been received by the Nigerian Senate.

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, while presiding over plenary on Tuesday, said the red chamber would ensure speedy consideration and passage of the bill into law.

He also welcomed the lawmakers back from their two weeks break.
The deputy senate president also assured that work on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) would soon be completed to ensure the passage of the Bill into law.

There has been pressure on the 7thNational Assembly to pass the PIB before the expiration of its tenure next year.
Ekweremadu said: “We are going to work on the conference committee report on the Review of the 1999 Constitution the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Today the conference committee will lay on the table the report of the joint conference committee.
“We also made a commitment to consider the Petroleum Industry Bill in the weeks ahead”.

He reminded senators that the season of primaries and congresses of political parties were at hand, saying the period would be challenging.

He said: “Importantly, as you are aware, we have our primaries and congresses coming ahead of us. I will like to wish everybody goodluck.

“So this is going to a very challenging and intense period but I believe that as always that we will bring our usual sense of commitment and patriotism to bare in order to overcome this and more challenges”.
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The conference report on the constitution amendment was la!d before the senators by the majority leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), on behalf of the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution and Deputy Senate President, Ekweremadu.