Nigeria: Cautionary Notes On Constitutional Review

27 November 2011
opinion

But let's step back. What is this fuss about constitutional review? Do we really need another review just a couple of years after the last Senate pulled through a wholesale review of the constitution? Of course, someone will argue that the constitution itself anticipates that it could be severally reviewed hence it has Sections 8 and 9 dealing with amendment to the constitution.

But the little inconvenient truth in that argument is that what those sections require is amendment of a section of the constitution and not a total review of the constitution which should rightly be the responsibility of a Constitutional Review Committee duly appointed.

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