of aspects of the national conference report, particularly policy
matters that do not require constitution amendment. Other aspects
would then be vetted and sent to the National Assembly.
This came following the Federal Executive Council (FEC)'s approval of
the modalities for implementation of the report as recommended by the
conference at its meeting on Wednesday.
"The national conference report came to the council today. You will
recall that barely one year ago, Mr President inaugurated the
conference and at the end of their sitting, the conference came up
with a report and submitted the report to him," Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Senator Pius Anyim made the disclosure
while briefing State House correspondents after the meeting presided
over by President Goodluck Jonathan.
"You will also recall that the conference came up with modalities for
implementing their resolutions or recommendations. And I think it the
high point of that effort. They also recommended to government on how
to implement those recommendations and resolutions.
"Let me say that what happened in council today was for it to approve
that those modalities be adopted in implementing the report. Recall
that when the report was submitted to Mr President, he set up a
committee under the chairmanship of the Attorney General of the
Federation and the committee has looked at the report in its entirety.
"The members have looked at the recommendations and they have advised
Mr President that they were implementable.
"You would have heard the president promising severally that he was
going to implement the recommendations of the conference. So, the
report coming to the council today is the first leg of taking concrete
steps towards implementing the recommendations.
"Resolutions of the conference and what was agreed today in council
are one, that the resolutions and recommendations that have
implications on constitution amendment or enactment of new laws, the
Attorney General should compile and vet them for onward transmission
to the National Assembly for enactment into law.
"So, we expect that in the nearest future, the Attorney General would
have concluded work on them and they will be forwarded by Mr President
to the National Assembly.
"The second approval was also that there are recommendations that have
to do with policy matters and those recommendations are necessarily
for implementation by either federal agencies or state agencies or
local government areas.
"So, it was approved in council that all policy matters that require
action by federal agencies would be referred to the agencies for
immediate implementation and all that require action by state
governments or state agencies should be referred to the states for
their immediate implementations and ditto for local government."
He continued: "... today, we are taking steps towards implementing the
resolutions of the national conference and we believe in the vision of
Mr President in setting up the conference and the wonderful work done
by eminent Nigerians who attended the conference in producing the
report, the resolutions and recommendations, and we believe our
country will benefit immensely from the work of this conference," he
said.
He was joined at the briefing by the outgoing supervising Minister of
Information, Chief Edem Duke; Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen and
newly sworn in minister, Professor Nicholas Ada, Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs 1; Colonel Augustine Akobundu (retd), Minister of
State for Defence; Fidelis Nwakwo, Minister of State for Health; Mrs
Hauwa'u Lawan Bappa, Minister of State Niger Delta Affairs; Kenneth
Kobani, Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment; Senator
Joel Danlami Ikenya, Minister of Labour and Musiliu Obanikoro,
Minister of State II for Foreign Affairs.
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