BREAKING: National Assembly sends 44 Constitution Review Bills to State Houses of Assembly

Information reaching us at The DEFENDER says that the National Assembly in Abuja has has transmitted 44 Constitution Review Bills, recently passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, to the State Houses of Assembly for further legislative work.

The Bills transmission were done on Tuesday after both the Red and Green chambers of the Federal legislature had considered 68 Constitution Review (fifth alteration) Bills but only 44 were passed.

The DEFENDER reports that Clerk of the National Assembly, Arch Amos Ojo, made the presentation to Clerks of the 36 State Houses of Assembly in Abuja.

The Chairperson, Forum of Clerks of State Houses of Assembly, Mrs Lyna Aliya Ocholor, symbolically received the Bills on behalf of 34 of her colleagues present at the ceremony.

Ocholor, who is the Clerk of Delta State House of Assembly, pledged that her colleagues would carry out the necessary legislative processes required for the bills to be considered by the various State Houses of Assembly.

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