The National Institute For Legislative and Democratic Studies NILDS, has called for sustained activism for the passage of the pending 1999 Constitution alteration Bills, especially Bills on financial and administrative autonomy for the local government system in the country.
NILDS Director-General, Abubakar Sulaiman, made the call in Abuja at a capacity building workshop for Clerks and Deputy Clerks, Directors of Legal Department of 36 State Houses of Assembly.
Suleiman congratulated participants at the workshop for their determination and commitment in facilitating consideration and passage of some of the 1999 Constitution Alteration Bills, which have been transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.
He, however, said that the two related Bills stand at the very core of Nigeria’s democracy, adding that Nigerians have a solemn patriotic duty to the country to ensure their passage into law.
