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Constitution review: How house of reps voted

July 27, 2017 6:07 pm

The house of representatives on Thursday reviewed and considered 33 bills from the harmonised report of the committee on constitution review.

The senate had its own session on Wednesday. Among the bill passed by the lower legislative chamber are the 35 percent affirmative action for women, not too young to run, financial autonomy for state legislature, reduction of authorisation of expenditure before budget passage from six to three months.

Constitution amendments only become operative after they have been passed by at least 24 state houses of assembly and two-thirds of the national assembly.

Below are all the bills they considered and how they voted:

NUMBER	BILL	YES	NO
1	Members of the council of states	274	6
2	Authorisation of expenditure	295	0
3	Devolution of power	210	71
4	Financial autonomy of state legislature	286	10
5	Distributable account for Local Governments to have their own special account	291	12
6	Democratic existence funding and tenure of LG council	285	7
7	State creation and boundary adjustment	166	125
8	Immunity for legislators for acts in course of duty	288	10
9	Political parties & electoral matters: Time to conduct bye elections & power to deregister parties	293	2
10	Presidential Assent	10	28
11	Time frame for submission of names of ministerial nominees	248	46
12	Appointment of minister from the FCT	191	91
13	Change of names of some LG councils: Ebonyi, Oyo, Ogun, Pleateau and Rivers.	220	57
14	Independent candidacy	275	14
15	The Nigeria Police Force to become Nigerian Police	280	9
16	Restriction of the tenure of president and governor	292	3
17	Separation of accountant general of the federal government from accountant general of the federation	274	23
18	Make the office of the auditor-general of federation and for State financially independent	289	11
19	Financial autonomy for auditor general of federation and state	289	11
20	Separation of office of attorney general from the minister/commissioner of justice	234	58
21	Submissions from the Judiciary	265	6
22	Determination of pre-election matters	288	3
23	Consequential amendment on civil defence	293	2
24	Citizenship and indigenship	216	77
25	Procedure for overriding presidential veto in constitutional alteration	271	20
26	Removal of law-making power from executive arm (Part 1) To remove NYSC, National Security Agencies/Public Complaints Commission from the constitution to enable only lawmakers make laws on them	209	47
27	Removal of law making power from executive arm (Part 2) Land Use Act.	139	148
28	Investment and securities tribunal	270	12
29	Reduction of age for election	261	2
30	Authorization of expenditure time frame for laying appropriation bill, passage etc	251	7
31	Deletion of state independent electoral commission.	229	51
32	Inclusion of Section 141 of the electoral act in the constitution	241	16