BY Dyepkazah Shibayan
The senate and house of representatives, on Tuesday, voted on 68 bills seeking to amend the 1999 constitution.
The voting on the bills were done simultaneously in both chambers.
The red and green chambers agreed on some of the bills and differed on others.
For example, while the senate voted against a bill to provide for an office of a mayor in the federal capital territory (FCT), the house of representatives approved the proposed legislation.
Bills that pass in only one chamber will not make the list of those that will be sent to the state houses of assembly to be voted on.
A total of 43 bills made the cut.
Two-thirds of the state assemblies will have to pass the bills before it is now sent to the president for assent.
Here is how both chambers of the national assembly voted.
| Bill | Senate | House of representatives |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Financial autonomy for LGAs | Yes | Yes |
| 2. Administrative autonomy for LGAs | Yes | Yes |
| 3. Bill to change names of Afikpo north and south LGAs of Bayelsa state | Yes | Yes |
| 4. Bill to change name of Kunchi LGA of Kano state | Yes | Yes |
| 5. Bill to change name of Egbado LGA of Ogun state | Yes | Yes |
| 6. Bill to change name of Barkin Ladi LGA of Plateau state | No | No |
| 7. Bill to correct name of Atigbo LGA of Oyo state | Yes | Yes |
| 8. Bill to correct Obia/Akpor LGA of Rivers state | Yes | Yes |
| 9. Financial autonomy for state legislature and judiciary | Yes | Yes |
| 10. Bill to make persons comply with legislative summons | Yes | Yes |
| 11. Bill to regulate inauguration of national assembly members-elect | Yes | Yes |
| 12. Bill for constitution to recognise National Assembly Civil Service Commission | Yes | No |
| 13. Bill to guide procedure for national assembly to pass a constitutional bill where president refuses assent | No | No |
| 14. Bill to provide procedure for overriding the president’s veto in respect of money bills | No | Yes |
| 15. Bill to provide procedure to remove presiding officers of national assembly | No | No |
| 16. Pension for presiding officers of the national assembly | No | No |
| 17. Bill to establish federal and state revenue court | No | Yes |
| 18. Judicial reforms | No | Yes |
| 19. Timeline for civil and criminal cases | No | Yes |
| 20. Uniformity of retirement age for judicial officers | Yes | Yes |
| 21. Delete reference to provisions of criminal code, penal code, etc | Yes | Yes |
| 22. Time for determining pre-election matters, appeals, etc | Yes | Yes |
| 23. Provision for virtual court hearing | No | Yes |
| 24. Expand the interpretation of judicial office to include courts or tribunals | Yes | Yes |
| 25. Provision of “post call qualification” of secretary of the National Judicial Council (NJC) | Yes | Yes |
| 26. Provision to permit public servants to engage in healthcare, education, production and service beyond farming | Yes | Yes |
| 27. Fair hearing for the removal of judicial officers | Yes | Yes |
| 28. Provision to include judges of National Industrial Court in election tribunals | No | Yes |
| 29. Provision to move airports from exclusive to concurrent list | Yes | Yes |
| 30. To move biometrics and criminal records from exclusive to concurrent list | Yes | Yes |
| 31. Delete prisons from exclusive list and redesignate it as correctional services in concurrent list | Yes | Yes |
| 32. Move railway from exclusive to concurrent list | Yes | Yes |
| 33. Allow states generate and transmit power in areas covered by national grid | Yes | Yes |
| 34. Bill to add VAT to exclusive list | No | No |
| 35. Bill to provide special seats for women at national assembly | No | No |
| 36. Bill to expand scope of citizenship by registration | Yes | No |
| 37. Affirmative action for women in political party administration | No | No |
| 38. Provision for criteria to be indigene of a state in Nigeria | Yes | No |
| 39. Bill to empower RMAFC to enforce remittance of accruals and disbursement from the federation account | Yes | Yes |
| 40. Bill to enhance the independence of certain bodies | Yes | Yes |
| 41. Bill to remove “transitional lawmaking powers” from executive | Yes | Yes |
| 42. Immunity to legislative and judiciary arms of government | No | No |
| 43. Timeline for executive to present treaty to national assembly for domestication | Yes | Yes |
| 44. Timeline for the presentation of budget by president or governor | Yes | Yes |
| 45. Bill to compel president or governor to submit names of ministers or commissioners within 30 days of taking oath of office | Yes | Yes |
| 46. Provision to include presiding officers of national assembly as members of security council | Yes | Yes |
| 47. Provision for the establishment of state security council | Yes | Yes |
| 48. Provision to empower national assembly or state assemblies to summon president or governor on issues they have power to make law | Yes | Yes |
| 49. Limit the period a president or governor can withdraw funds in absence of budgets from six to three months | Yes | Yes |
| 50. To replace Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the federation with CRF of FG | Yes | Yes |
| 51. Bill to establish the office of the accountant-general of the federal government separate from the office of the accountant-general of the federation | Yes | Yes |
| 52. Specify time to conduct a population census | Yes | Yes |
| 53. Bill to detach office of attorney-general of the federation from minister of justice | Yes | Yes |
| 54. Provision for state of the nation address by president | Yes | Yes |
| 55. Provision to include former heads of the national assembly in council of state | Yes | Yes |
| 56. Termination of tenure of elected officials who defect to other political parties | No | No |
| 57. Provision to enhance existing provisions for formation of political parties | Yes | Yes |
| 58. Provision for independent candidacy | Yes | Yes |
| 59. Diaspora voting | No | No |
| 60. Office of mayor of Abuja | No | Yes |
| 61. Appointment of indigenous FCT minister | No | Yes |
| 62. Correct error in dilenation of FCT boundary | Yes | Yes |
| 63. Free, compulsory basic education | Yes | Yes |
| 64. Define acts that constitute torture | No | No |
| 65. Rights to food and food security | Yes | Yes |
| 66. Define core functions of NSCDC | Yes | No |
| 67. Traditional rulers council to advise president, governor | No | Yes |
| 68. Reserve quota for women | No | Yes |
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