The House of Representatives’ Special Committee on Constitution Review has scheduled public hearings on the ongoing amendments to the 1999 Constitution for Tuesday and Wednesday next week. The event will be held in the six geopolitical zones.
The Senate had already begun a parallel exercise. Deputy Speaker of the House, Ahmed Wase, is chairman of the committee.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Speaker, Umar Puma, in a statement issued on Monday and titled ‘Constitution review: Reps to Begin Zonal Public Hearings 1st June,’ said the committee “has invited the general public, executive and judicial bodies, traditional institutions, political parties, civil society organisations, professional bodies and all other stakeholders.”
The statement partly read, “The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, who is also chairman of the special committee, Rt. Hon. Ahmed Idris Wase, said each zone will have two centres.
The Deputy Speaker was quoted to have appealed to members of the committee to always put Nigeria first.
