Six months after the constitution amendment bills were passed by the National Assembly earlier in the year and transmitted to the states for their legislative votes, only 11 of Nigeria’s 36 state legislatures have considered and voted on the 44 bills .
The states whose houses of assembly have voted on the bills are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Delta, Edo, Kaduna, Katsina, Kogi, Lagos, Ogun and Osun states.
Twenty-five other states have failed to consider the bills as the states have threatened to take no action on the bills unless four more constitutional amendment bills are considered and passed by the National Assembly.
The demands which were contained in a letter from the Conference of Speakers to the National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitutional Review are to establish State Police, establish State Judicial Council, Streamline the procedure for removing Presiding Officers of State Houses of Assembly and Institutionalise Legislative Bureaucracy in the Constitution.
The Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, who made this known has accused some state governors of interfering in the affairs of state assemblies and turning state lawmakers into puppets for their selfish gains.
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