Nigeria: Confab Rejects Special Court for Environmental Issues, Endorse Resource Democracy

28 May 2014

ABUJA--Applause and knocks greeted the report of the Committee on Environment when it was presented to the plenary of the on-going national conference in Abuja on Monday.

In particular, the committee's recommendations demanding the removal of the Land Use Act from the 1999 Constitution and the establishment of a special court to deal with environmental issues received mixed reactions from various delegates, depending on which tribal grouping they belong to.

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