Confab Delegates Form Pressure Group

Some delegates at the just concluded national conference have formed a
major pressure group with the aim of pushing for the implementation of
the decisions reached at the conference.The group, which was known as
"National Consensus Initiative", was inaugurated few hours before
President Goodluck Jonathan declared the conference closed in Abuja on
Thursday.

Members of the group vowed to ensure that the report of the
conference, which was submitted to the President was fully
implemented.The Interim Coordinator of the group, Mr. Remi Olatubora,
who spoke with journalists after the inaugural meeting of the group's
Steering Committee, expressed worry that recommendations and reports
of such conferences in the past were not implemented.He disclosed that
the group would work together as advocacy group towards ensuring that
"decisions of the conference are not left in the shelf to gather dust
in the manner in which the reports of earlier conferences were
treated."He added that the desire to come together in a group was
informed by common desire of most of the delegates that all relevant
governmental organs and agencies implement the decisions of the
conference.Members if the group, which cut across the six
geo-political zones, were made up of professionals drawn from the
academia, law, Civil Society Organisations, Religious bodies,