N’Assembly: Group Protests Verdict on Adada State Creation National Assembly Complex Francis Ugwoke Community leaders and other stakeholders agitating for the creation of Adada State from the present Enugu State have called for a review of the report of the consultant who worked for the National Assembly on the issue of state creation. The group, under the aegis of Enugu State Actualisation Committee for the Creation of Adada State and Adada State Movement, said this had become necessary since the National Assembly assessed the request of the group based on documents submitted in 2008 instead of the ones submitted last year to the seventh National Assembly. Spokesman for the group, Chief James Ugwu, in a statement sent to THISDAY, said the people of the area were worried about the verdict of the committee which handled the state creation exercise as it affects the request for Adada state. Ugwu explained that he was making a passionate appeal for the review of the committee’s work as it affects Adada since it was obvious that the verdict was wrong. “We as a movement would want to call for a proper review of the committee’s work as it concerns our request. We were told that the committee actually worked and gave its verdict based on the documents submitted by a consultant that worked for it,” the statement read. “It worries us that the consultant went to take the 2008 document of the sixth National Assembly to assess the requests for creation of states under the current seventh National Assembly while leaving out documents submitted in 2012 as in our own case. The situation calls to question whether the said consultant applied due diligence in discharging his responsibilities. “It is our view that considering the enormity of the mistake, the assessment should be revisited now in the interest justice, especially in line with the ideals of the nation’s current democratic dispensation,” he said. Ugwu said that since the people of the area have never had dissenting voices, the problem of getting the right signatories for an updated request in line with the dictates of the constitution couldn’t have arisen. “We updated our request and we have the records and as I am talking to you, copies of the documents we submitted are here for you to see as we submitted to chairman of the committee at the level of the senate, to the clerk of the National Assembly and to the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution,” he said. Ugwu added that even as the reports of constitution review committees of both arms of the National Assembly declared that no group agitating for state creation succeeded in their quest, the Adada agitators had quietly secured the approval of three out of the five South East state governors. “According to the report of the senate committee chairman, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, our request was said to have failed like other agitations because it claimed that Hon. Paul Eze, a former member of the National Assembly who had represented the Uzo-Uwani/Igbo Etiti federal constituency signed our document. But it is not true. We showed them in Abuja that it was the current representative, Hon. Stella Ngwu, who signed our updated request way back in May 2012”, he said.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 07:46:23 +0000
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