The Senate Committee on Overview of 1999 Structure will maintain public hearings on the proposed structure amendments between July 4 and July 5 in all of the six geo-political zones of the nation.
Chairman of the committee and Deputy Senate President, Sen. Barau Jibrin, disclosed this in an announcement issued by his Particular Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir, in Abuja on Sunday.
Barau mentioned that the general public hearings would maintain concurrently in Lagos (South-West), Enugu (South- East), Ikot Ekpene (South -South, Jos (North- Central) Maiduguri, (North-East) and Kano (North- West).
In response to him, the zonal public hearings are convened to collect the inputs of residents on the proposed amendments to the nation’s structure.
He mentioned that the general public hearings would study important nationwide points, together with native authorities autonomy, electoral and judicial reforms, state creation, state police and inclusive governance.
Barau mentioned one of many payments proposed the institution of native authorities councils as a tier of presidency to ensure their democratic existence and tenure.
This, he mentioned, was a part of a renewed push for full autonomy for all of the 774 native authorities councils within the nation.
Barau mentioned that the second invoice on native authorities reforms sought to create an unbiased Nationwide Native Authorities Electoral Fee (NALGEC) to organise, conduct and supervise native authorities elections.
“Additionally to be thought-about through the zonal public hearings are two payments on safety and policing for the institution of state police and state safety council to coordinate inside safety insurance policies on the sub-national stage.
“Within the space of fiscal reforms, six payments are going to be thought-about, together with the one to empower the Income Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Fee to implement compliance of remittance of accruals into and disbursement of income from Federation Account,” he mentioned.
The lawmaker additional acknowledged {that a} invoice on fiscal reforms to change the provisions of the structure to specify interval inside which the president or governor of a state would current the appropriation invoice earlier than the nationwide meeting or homes of meeting can be mentioned on the listening to.
“The committee can even think about a invoice to offer further seats for ladies within the nationwide and state homes of meeting.
“A invoice for an act to change the structure to ascertain the Nationwide Council of Conventional Rulers, the State Council of Conventional Rulers and the Native Authorities Council of Conventional Rulers can even be thought-about,” he mentioned.
Barau mentioned {that a} proposal for modification of the 1999 Structure to permit for unbiased candidacy in any respect ranges of election can be even be mentioned.
” That is simply as a invoice for diaspora voting to enfranchise Nigerians overseas has been listed for consideration.
“The listening to will think about over 20 payments looking for to overtake the nation’s judiciary, together with timelines for judgment supply and expanded jurisdiction for election tribunals.
“Proposals have been made to switch objects like labour and delivery from the unique to the concurrent legislative listing,” he added.
The senator mentioned that the committee would additionally talk about 31 proposals on state creation, with 5 requests every from the South-West, South-South and North-Central geo-political zones.
In response to him, the committee has acquired seven requests from the north-east, six from the north-west and three from the south-east for state creation.
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