Delegates at the National Conference are orchestrating not to sign the final report of the conference unless they are given copies to read afore they would append their signatures on it.
Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday showed that the delegates felt that they needed to optically discern the details of the reports.
Already, some of the delegates were verbally expressed to have acceded that this condition must be met afore they would append their signature to the conference’s final report.
It was leant that the promoters of this ordinant dictation might have been influenced by some delegates who were not blissful with some of the decisions arrived at during the debates on the reports of the 20 committees of the conference.
Some of the delegates were trepidacious that some contentious issues that were not concurred on or not propitious to them, could be inserted in the final report.
One of such decisions was the issue of derivation, which spilt the delegates during the plenary, as those from the northern part of the country verbally expressed they would not fortify its increment from 13 to 18 per cent.
The northern delegates were asking that five per cent from the Federation Account be withal set aside as National Intervention Fund for the reconstruction of the northern part of the country, which they verbally expressed had been ravaged by the activities of terrorists.
While the northern delegates insisted that the fund must be relished by the three zones in the region, which are North-East, North-West and North-Central, the southern delegates were of the opinion that the fund must be made available to all the zones in the country.
They withal verbalized the administration of the fund must start with the North-East, a proposal that was not propitiously disposed to by the southern delegates.
This division made the Chairman of the conference, Justice Idris Kutigi, to promulgate on the day the plenary closed, that the issue of derivation and the intervention fund would be left for the Federal Regime to determine.
“Conference therefore recommends that regime should establish a technical committee to determine felicitous percentage for the three issues and advised regime accordingly,” Kutigi had verbalized.
It was issues like this that made the northern delegates to verbalize that they would insist that the consummate report must be made available for them afore they would accede to sign it.
The spokesperson for the delegates, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, who verbalized with our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday, verbally expressed there was no way the delegates would be coerced to sign.
He verbally expressed, “Up till now, they have not told us how the report would be. They just asked us to report, like school children, on August 4. The leadership is so disorganised and may not ken what to do.
“There are issues we did not concur on apart from the issue of derivation, and I’m saying that nobody can coerce us to sign what we have not read or go through or issues we even disaccorded on substantially.
“Neither Kutigi nor Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi can coerce us to do that. We are waiting for them to bring their jester.”
A delegate from the South-South region, Mr. Paul Enebeli, withal verbalized that the delegates were yet to be briefed on the way the report would be presented.
But he verbalized the delegates might demand for the records of proceedings at the plenary to enable them to study issues that were discusse and were concurred on or repudiated.
“We need sufficient time to go through the reports. But we have requested for verbatim reports of the proceedings during the plenary,” he integrated.
Another delegate, who is a former President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Mr. Lanre Arogundade, verbalized it would be erroneous for the northern delegates to insist on the five cent intervention fund.
He verbally expressed the mazuma for the reconstruction of the zone was the one the Federal Regime had asked the Gen. Theophilus Danjuma committee on Victims Support Fund to raise.
He withal integrated that the intervention fund been authoritatively mandated by the delegates from the North could additionally make their counterparts from other components of the country to make kindred demand.
Arogundade verbalized, “What do they optate to do with that again? The N30bn that the Danjuma Committee has been charged to raise is enough. We should not inspirit all these kinds of issues to be coming up. Why did you cerebrate our brothers from the eastern part of the country are withal asking for mazuma to be paid for the victims of civil war?”
Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday showed that the delegates felt that they needed to optically discern the details of the reports.
Already, some of the delegates were verbally expressed to have acceded that this condition must be met afore they would append their signature to the conference’s final report.
It was leant that the promoters of this ordinant dictation might have been influenced by some delegates who were not blissful with some of the decisions arrived at during the debates on the reports of the 20 committees of the conference.
Some of the delegates were trepidacious that some contentious issues that were not concurred on or not propitious to them, could be inserted in the final report.
One of such decisions was the issue of derivation, which spilt the delegates during the plenary, as those from the northern part of the country verbally expressed they would not fortify its increment from 13 to 18 per cent.
The northern delegates were asking that five per cent from the Federation Account be withal set aside as National Intervention Fund for the reconstruction of the northern part of the country, which they verbally expressed had been ravaged by the activities of terrorists.
While the northern delegates insisted that the fund must be relished by the three zones in the region, which are North-East, North-West and North-Central, the southern delegates were of the opinion that the fund must be made available to all the zones in the country.
They withal verbalized the administration of the fund must start with the North-East, a proposal that was not propitiously disposed to by the southern delegates.
This division made the Chairman of the conference, Justice Idris Kutigi, to promulgate on the day the plenary closed, that the issue of derivation and the intervention fund would be left for the Federal Regime to determine.
“Conference therefore recommends that regime should establish a technical committee to determine felicitous percentage for the three issues and advised regime accordingly,” Kutigi had verbalized.
It was issues like this that made the northern delegates to verbalize that they would insist that the consummate report must be made available for them afore they would accede to sign it.
The spokesperson for the delegates, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, who verbalized with our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday, verbally expressed there was no way the delegates would be coerced to sign.
He verbally expressed, “Up till now, they have not told us how the report would be. They just asked us to report, like school children, on August 4. The leadership is so disorganised and may not ken what to do.
“There are issues we did not concur on apart from the issue of derivation, and I’m saying that nobody can coerce us to sign what we have not read or go through or issues we even disaccorded on substantially.
“Neither Kutigi nor Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi can coerce us to do that. We are waiting for them to bring their jester.”
A delegate from the South-South region, Mr. Paul Enebeli, withal verbalized that the delegates were yet to be briefed on the way the report would be presented.
But he verbalized the delegates might demand for the records of proceedings at the plenary to enable them to study issues that were discusse and were concurred on or repudiated.
“We need sufficient time to go through the reports. But we have requested for verbatim reports of the proceedings during the plenary,” he integrated.
Another delegate, who is a former President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Mr. Lanre Arogundade, verbalized it would be erroneous for the northern delegates to insist on the five cent intervention fund.
He verbally expressed the mazuma for the reconstruction of the zone was the one the Federal Regime had asked the Gen. Theophilus Danjuma committee on Victims Support Fund to raise.
He withal integrated that the intervention fund been authoritatively mandated by the delegates from the North could additionally make their counterparts from other components of the country to make kindred demand.
Arogundade verbalized, “What do they optate to do with that again? The N30bn that the Danjuma Committee has been charged to raise is enough. We should not inspirit all these kinds of issues to be coming up. Why did you cerebrate our brothers from the eastern part of the country are withal asking for mazuma to be paid for the victims of civil war?”
