{"id":1198,"date":"2014-09-01T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2014-09-01T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:50:15","slug":"confab-delegate-wants-report-to-form-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Confab delegate wants report to form new constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A delegate to the just concluded national conference, Mr. Steve Aluko, has recommended that the reports of the conference should form the fulcrum of a people-oriented national constitution.<\/p>\n

He said this could be done by subjecting the recommendations to a referendum, instead of leaving it with the National Assembly so that Nigerians across the divide would have an input.<\/p>\n

Aluko, who spoke in an interview with our correspondent in Jos on Monday, said most of the recommendations in the report were drawn putting in mind problems that the country has been trying to overcome.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThe national conference is not new and the recommendations and solutions proffered are also not new, what has remained is the political will to get the right things done.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conference provided another opportunity for a reappraisal of how and why we have got to where we were and it is an opportunity we must not miss if we are to have a people-oriented constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigerians must be made to own that document and so the implementations of the recommendations must be driven by Nigerians not President Goodluck Jonathan or the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should go to the public because if we don\u2019t engage the National Assembly, they may water it down; We must not leave it to the National Assembly or the presidency, the popular wish is that it must be subjected to a referendum so that nobody shortchanges Nigerians at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

He warned that if the present administration failed to implement the recommendations of the confab, at the end of the day someone would come and implement it, adding that it was in the best interest of Nigerians that they learn from history.<\/p>\n

Aluko, who is also the director of the Civil Liberties Organisation, praised the leadership of the conference for the manner they handled deliberations, adding, the confab would have collapsed in the first week we convened because of the sharp differences, but the leadership qualities of the chairman, Justice Kutigi, came to play and he was able to pilot the proceedings to a logical end.<\/p>\n

Aluko, who served on the committee on land tenure and physical boundary, supported the idea of creation of states, adding that it must be done cautiously so that previous mistakes of dislodging people of the same culture and putting them where they do not belong would not arise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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