CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT: STATE ASSEMBLIES RETURN REPORT TO NASS TODAY Constitution Amendment: State Assemblies Return Report To NASS Today Bode Gbadebo , Edegbe Odemwingie — Dec 19, 2014 | 0 Comments The National Assembly will today receive the conference report of the review of the 1999 constitution which was earlier transmitted to state Houses of Assembly for concurrence. House spokesman, Hon. Zakari Mohammed, made the disclosure to newsmen at a briefing yesterday. LEADERSHIP Friday recalls that on October 28, the chairman of the Conference of State Houses of Assembly, Hon. Sam Ikon, who is the speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, received the conference report at the National Assembly. The report is expected to show voting patterns from the 36 state assemblies on the proposed 71 amendments. The 71 amendments approved by the House border on: legislative immunity, local government autonomy, state creation, indigeneship and citizenship, independent candidacy in elections, budgetary process, life pension for National Assembly heads, role for traditional rulers, amongst others.
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