FG Approves 2014 Confab Report

FG Approves 2014 Confab Report – The Nigerian Federal Executive Council the other day approved the report of the 2014 National Conference for implementation. 

According to Leadership, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), which gave the approval, also approved road and office accommodation projects worth several billions of naira.

Minister of culture and tourism and outgoing minister of information, Chief Edem Duke, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.

He was accompanied by the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim, and the minister of works, Mike Onolememen.

Duke said with the approval, the federal government now had a platform on which to direct relevant agencies to commence the implementation of aspects of the report.

The minister added that the report was unique in the sense that it did not stop at recommendations and resolutions, but went further to suggest methods for their implementation.

Other members of the committee included the Minister of Transport, Idris Umar; Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda; Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka; Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory Administration, Olajumoke Akinjide and Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen.

Explaining further on FEC’s deliberations, the SGF, said the council approved that the methods recommended by the conferees be adopted as the first steps towards implementing the report.

He said the recommendations requiring input from the legislative arm of government would be compiled and vetted by the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), Mohammed Adoke, for onward transmission to the National Assembly.

The SGF said, “Let me say that what happened in council today (yesterday) was for the council 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 AGF and the committee has looked at the report in its entirety. They have looked at the recommendations and they have advised Mr President that they were implementable.”

Anyim said that the president had been making promises to the effect 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 and resolutions of the conference,” he said.

“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’s 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 same for local government.”

FEC also approved road contracts to the tune of about N39.6 billion.

The 2014 National Conference was inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan on 17 March 2014 in Abuja.The conference had in attendance about 492 delegates which represented a cross-section of Nigerians including the professional bodies group.

The Conference was headed by retired Chief Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi following a plenary session that lasted for weeks.

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