The Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, on Monday, said the report of the 2014 constitutional conference was not workable in restructuring the country.
Akume stated this during a briefing in Makurdi, Benue State, which was attended by Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, and traditional rulers, political and religious leaders. The President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had dispatched cabinet members to their home states to douse the tension created by the #EndSARS protests.
Addressing the stakeholders, Ortom suggested that the Federal Government should go back to the 2014 confab report to restructure the country. Ortom said, “There is a need to dust the 2014 confab report to restructure every segment of the country.
“We need to restructure the current presidential system of government, all the sectors, the EFCC, the relationship among federal, state and local government areas, revenue generation and distribution.“What is happening now is as a result of accumulated wrongs meted to people as well as issues that were left unattended by successive administrations.”
But Akume, in his remarks, said that the 2014 confab report could not be relied upon, because it defied equality. Akume said, “The confab report cannot be relied upon because it defies equality as the number of people who came from the East outnumbered the North.
“I was at the National Assembly then, but I did not know those who represented me. They (representatives) were merely handpicked without my knowledge.”The minister, who lamented the damage done to the nation’s economy, however, said the government was working on a welfare package.
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