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<p>Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I. Jibrin, CFR, has reiterated the National Assembly&#8217;s commitment to delivering people-centred and timely amendments to the 1999 Constitution.</p>
<p>Setting the tone for the two-day joint retreat of the Senate and the House of Representatives&#8217; Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution in Lagos, he appealed to the lawmakers to work towards attaining the promise made to transmit the first set of amendments to the State Houses of Assembly this year.</p>
<p>The retreat was organised to allow members of the joint committees to review the proposed amendments &#8220;clause-by-clause.&#8221;</p><div class="dGtMqh0t" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>A total of 69 bills, 55 state creation requests, two boundary adjustments, and 278 local government creation requests will be considered during the retreat.</p>
<p>&#8221; It has been a long journey to bring the Senate and the House of Representatives Constitution Amendment proposals that cut across several sections and dealing with different subject matters.</p>
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<p>&#8221; We have been in this process for the past two years, engaging our constituents, critical stakeholders, institutions, civil society organizations and interest groups; in town hall meetings, interactive sessions and public hearings, harvesting and synthesizing views and perspectives which has ultimately culminated to what we have here today &#8211; 69 bills, 55 state creations requests, two boundary adjustment and 278 Local Government creation requests,&#8221; Senator Barau was quoted in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir.</p>
<p>As chair of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Barau emphasised that they are expected to resolve these issues and make recommendations to their colleagues in both chambers.</p>
<p>&#8221; It is not going to be a simple task to achieve within two days, but I believe we can do it, especially as we have promised Nigerians that we will deliver the first set of amendments to the State Houses of Assembly before the end of this year.</p>
<p>&#8221; I believe we can deliver on this promise if we engage the bills and the issues with open minds. I acknowledge we represent constituents with diverse ethnic, religious and socio-economic cleavages through different political platforms, but the Constitution is the grundnorm for Nigerian citizens and nationhood which we must approach with patriotism and nationalism as higher shared goals,&#8221; said.</p>
<p>Senator Barau, who also serves as the First Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, urged lawmakers to focus on what best serves the citizens of Nigeria and avoid competitive debates.</p>
<p>&#8221; We are seated here as one Committee. There should be no &#8220;we&#8221; and &#8220;them&#8221;; we should be guided by the interests of Nigerians. I wish all of us a very fruitful deliberation and hope for recommendations that will meet the approval threshold of the provisions of section 9 of the Constitution,&#8221; he said.</p>
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