Nawa o Senate begins another process of amending 1999 Constitution

The Senate has begun another process of
amending the 1999 Constitution, just as Deputy
Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu retains
his position as Chairman of the new committee.
Announcing the composition of the committee,
Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, said
Ekweremadu will lead 37 other senators to carry
out the exercise.
Ekweremadu was the chairman of the committee
set up by former Senate President, David Mark, in
the Seventh Senate.
Saraki, who noted that the eighth Senate had
made the ammendments of the constitution, its
major deliverable, said: “With the composition of
the committee, the Senate had set the stage for
the activities leading to the delivery to our people.
The work already carried out by the Seventh
Senate had made the jobs of the new committee,
easier”
Saraki urged the committee to do away with
traveling across the country for facts gathering,
just as he asked them to concentrate on the
issues that would de-emphasise recurrent
expenditure that had been substantially agreed
upon by the last committee.