Constitution Amendment Committee Members Did Not Pocket N8bn – Ekweremadu

Deputy president of the senate, Ike Ekweremadu, on Sunday declared that no member of the constitution amendment committee in the seventh senate ever had any reason to pocket N8 billion as claimed by a report. Ekweremadu, who presided over the committee, dismissed the allegation as a figment of the imagination of those peddling the report. “For clarity, constitution amendment as an expenditure item is covered by the Appropriation Act of each year and disbursed by the appropriate bureaucracy of the National Assembly for the purpose it was appropriated in accordance with extant rules,” he said.  In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, the Deputy Senate President explained that the Fourth Alteration of the Constitution effected by the National Assembly did not fail as claimed by the report. Ekweremadu noted that the process was only sabotaged by vested interests within the presidency so as to thwart some fundamental alterations.