House Ad Hoc Committee Adopts 2014 National Conference Report

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The House of Representatives Special Ad hoc Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution has adopted the report of the ‎National Conference, 2014 as part of its working document.

The decision to adopt the report of the National Conference was taken at a working session/retreat of the committee, which recently held at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

The meeting, according to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Speaker, Mr Wole Oladimeji, was presided over by the Chairman of the Committee and Deputy Speaker of the House, Rt Hon Sulaimon Lasun Yussuff.

Copies of the report have been circulated to members of the Committee‎ to go through and come up with recommendations to the Committee while the consultants to the Committee have given the report to advise the Committee on how to go about it.

Some of the salient proposals in the report would be turned into draft bills‎, which would be presented to the House for adoption and passage.

The Committee would commence work on the review immediately the House resumes from its Sallah break.