Views: Visits 3 By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, Monday, expressed doubt over the positive outcome of the ongoing consultation on the review of 1999 Constitution across the six geopolitical zones and Federal Capital Territory, FCT. Speaking with Vanguard they said the amendment consultation should focus on areas Nigerians have been agitating for amendment on some gray areas that have hampered rapid development of the country after the return of democracy in 1999. Some also called on the Buhari-led administration and the National Assembly to adopt the 2014 Confab report as a major instrument to amend the 1999 Constitution, which addressed most of the issues heating up the polity currently.
CSOs express doubt over outcome of ongoing consultation on constitutional review
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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, Monday, expressed doubt over the positive outcome of the ongoing consultation on the review of 1999 Constitution across the six geopolitical zones and Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
Speaking with Vanguard they said the amendment consultation should focus on areas Nigerians have been agitating for amendment on some gray areas that have hampered rapid development of the country after the return of democracy in 1999.
Some also called on the Buhari-led administration and the National Assembly to adopt the 2014 Confab report as a major instrument to amend the 1999 Constitution, which addressed most of the issues heating up the polity currently.
Sowore was on Monday morning shot in the right side of the stomach towards the hip by gun-wielding policemen drafted to the Unity Fountain, Abuja while he was trying to gain entrance into the place.
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The news of Friday’s military plane crash jolted many, considering just three months ago, a military plane crashed with the seven officers onboard died. The late officers were returning to Abuja from Minna at the time of the incident. Just after that, in March, a Nigerian airforce jet went missing and it was latter discovered that it crashed. So, it is three crashes in three months, as the first and third clashes occurred exactly three months apart, February 21 and May 21.
As many continued to input different insinuations around the plane crashes, the military and federal government especially through its agencies should be able to tell Nigerians in the coming days the real and remote cause of the mishap. But with this new incident and as the nation mourns; more rain of tributes has continued to pour in for the departed military officers. Those that died in the Friday crash were Brig-Gen Mohammed Idris Abdulkadir, Brig-Gen Olatunji L