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Ohaneze Insists On Legality Of National Dialogue

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IFEANYI EZUGWU, ENUGU.

Apparently miffed by various conferences held in the country whose

outcomes have not been implemented, the Southeast geo political zone

on Tuesday called on President Goodluck Jonathan to as a matter of

urgency send an executive bill to the National Assembly to ensure the

legality and integrity of the proposed national dialogue.

The zone also demanded that the outcome of the conference should be

subjected to a national referendum and thereafter without alteration

becomes the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria.

It also insisted on equal representation of the six geo political

zones of the country comprising of sixty delegates from each zone to

dialogue at the conference.

The position was contained in a memorandum presented by Ohanaeze

Ndigbo to the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue

which met in Enugu yesterday.

Those who signed the memorandum include President General of Ohanaeze

Ndigbo, Chief Gary Igariwey and secretary general, Dr Joe Nwaorgu.

Others who signed the memorandum were Ezeuzu Awka, Obi Gibson Nwosu,

former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, former governors, Okwesilieze

Nwodo, Sam Egwu; Prof Ukwu I. Ukwu, Chief Mbazulike Amechi and

Ambassador LOC Agubuzo.

Presenting the position of Ndigbo to the committee, Igariwey, listed

issues that should be discussed at the conference to include political

structure of the country, forms of government, power of the tiers of

government/devolution, revenue and fiscal federalism, derivation and

distribution.

Others are citizenship right, structure of the armed forces and other

security agencies to improve the security of life and property of

Nigerians, judicature, population and census issues, religion and

secularism as well as place of traditional rulers and institutions.

Igariwey noted, “ as a nation with enormous natural and human

resources, Nigeria has refused to grow in line with the aspirations of

her founding fathers. Nigeria is not working and cannot work because

it now exists on a faulty foundation. The fundamental problem is

structural. No one builds a super structure on a faulty foundation. It

is therefore time to review and fine –tune the bonds binding us a

nation, in preparation for the challenges of a new global order”.

He implored the committee to rise to the challenges of true patriotism

by ensuring that the recommendations of the conference would lead to

the realization of the dreams of the founding fathers of the country.

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