Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, announced that the first draft report of the ongoing review of the 1999 constitution will be ready in August 2022. The final clean copy for presidential assent is expected to be out in August 2025 after voting by the National Assembly. Kalu made these statements at a press conference held by the House Committee on Constitution Review.
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu has said that the first draft report of the ongoing review of the 1999 constitution would be ready in August 202. He equally said the final clean copy for the presidential assent after the voting on the expected issues of concern by the two chambers of the National Assembly would be out in August, 2025. Kalu dropped the hints at a press conference by the House Committee on Constitution Review on Thursday.
It could be recalled that the committee on its inauguration, Monday, in Abuja, gave a 24-month timeline for the conclusion of the exercise. At the press conference, Kalu who doubles as the chairman of the committee said: 'We are pushing to ensure that in our activities, that in no distant time, the first draft of the work we are trying to do in the constitution will be ready. 'This will be subject to approval of the work done by the subcommittee. Let me mention that by our target, the first draft of the constitution will be out in August 202
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