Six months after, 25 states Assembly ignore Constitution Amendment Bills

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, Chairman of the National Assembly Constitution Review Committee, Ovie Omo-Agege, on Tuesday disclosed that six months after the National Assembly passed 44 constitution amendment bills, and communicated same to State Houses of Assembly, 25 states have continued to ignore the bill. Omo-Agege at a press conference on the 44 constitution amendment bills at the National Assembly on Tuesday, decried that  only 11 of the 36 State Houses of Assembly have shown autonomy and loyalty to the country, to have considered the bills.

The Deputy Senate President disclosed that the Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly sent a letter to the National Assembly, indicating that the other 25 states will not act on the bills excerpt the National Assembly passes four new bills they proposed.

The bills were said to include the establishment of state police, state judicial council, streamline procedure for removing presiding officers of state houses of assembly and a bill to include legislative bureaucracy in the constitution.

The constitution amendment process require the ratification  of two third state houses of assembly after the passage of the bill by the National Assembly before the constitution can be amended.