Confab Com’ttee Recommends Abrogation Of Land Use Act

Executive Director, Nigerian Investment Promotion Council, Abubakar Hassan (right), signing MoU on Investment Promotion Cooperation with the Director -General, China Investment Promotion Agency, Mr Liu Dianxun, during a bilateral meeting between Nigeria and China at the Presidential Villa in Abuja last Wednesday Photo: NAN

The National Conference Committee on Land Tenure and Boundary Matters may recommend the abrogation of the Land use Act.
A member of the Committee and delegate from Rivers State, Dr. Isaac Akara, who disclosed this at the Interactive session held by the Niger Delta Consultative Forum in Port Harcourt, also said that the conference may recommend a return to the 1963 constitution which dealt with the devolution of powers and derivation.
He said that the crisis in parts of the country have necessitated the need for the restructuring of the country.
Dr. Akara, who is one of the representatives of the civil society at the conference, also said that Nigeria must resist the on-going attempt by the Boko Haram to destablise the country.
Also speaking, a delegate to the conference, Chief Sergeant Awuse said that the South South was working with other regions to achieve its objective.
He said that the present structure in the country was against the interest of the South South, stressing that it is against this background that the zone must go into alliances with others to change the situation.
Awuse, who is a member of the Finance and revenue development Committee, said that while the zone is insisting on 50 per cent derivation, it is however, prepared to negotiate with other regions with a view to moving the country forward.
The former governorship aspirant in the state called on Nigerians to respect the office of the president, stressing that Nigeria must be a country based on equity and fairness.
On her part, Miss Ann Kio Briggs said that South South delegates need the support of the people to succeed at the conference.
Briggs said that the zone will not go beyond 50 per cent in its demand, and described the 1999 constitution as anti-Niger Delta.
Earlier, the Chairman of the occasion, Professor Andrew Efemini said that the people’s voices must be heard, especially in this trying times.
Professor Efemini, a lecturer in the University of Port Harcourt, said that the National Conference has the potential to ensure that the people of the Niger Delta are free from the shackles of poverty and unemployment.