Constitution review: Nigerians say no to resource control, state police, state electoral commission




      The House of Representatives, on Thursday, presented the collated report of the Peoples’ Public Sessions on the Review of the 1999 Constitution conducted by the House in the 360 federal constituencies of the country, with the majority of Nigerians kicking against resource control, creation of state police and creation of state Independent Electoral Commission.
The result was presented at an elaborate event chaired by the Speaker, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, who apologised for the unfortunate postponement of presentation of the result on January 31.
 According to the result presented by the constitution review panel chaired by Honourable Emeka Ihedioha, the majority of Nigerians equally supported financial autonomy for local governments in the country, autonomy for house of assemblies and independent candidacy in elections.
The result further showed that the constituents supported amendment of the constitution to deny revenue allocation to unelected local government councils in the country.
However, the result showed that Nigerians kicked against zoning arrangement, single term and diaspora voting.
On the issue of state creation, the majority of the constituents supported creation of states but not on equal level.
Support was also given to amendment of the constitution to separate the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation by the creation of the office of the Accountant-General of the states and, as well separation of the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation from the position of Minister of Justice of the Federation.





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