Nigeria: National Assembly to Vote On 32 Constitution Alteration Bills Today

26 July 2017

The two chambers of the National Assembly will today enter the most decisive step in changing the 1999 Constitution with votes on 32 bills in the two chambers of the National Assembly. To avoid throwing away the baby with the bath water the two committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives decided to desegregate the Constitution Alteration Bills into 32 separate bills grouped in separate themes.

The bills include provisions to allow married women choose either her indigeneship by birth or by marriage for the purposes of appointment or election. Among the bills to be voted for today and tomorrow are also bills to delete the Land Use Decree, National Youth Service Corp, NYSC Decree, among others from the constitution.

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