Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has actually implicated the National Assembly of doing disservice to Nigeria over its willpower to remove restructuring and the control of VAT by state from the constitution amendment.

HURIWA knocked the 9th National Assembly over 68 changes proposed by the Joint Senate and House of Representatives’ Special Ad Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution.

HURIWA in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, prompted the union of Civil Society Organisations in the nation to install pressure on the legislature to make sure that unpatriotic arrangements are not included in the constitution.

Members of the National Assembly are billed to vote on the recommendations on Tuesday and Wednesday, after which the proposal would be sent to the states for concurrence.

HURIWA stated it is especially appalled that the National Assembly did not consist of state policing and restructuring in the modifications of the constitution.

The group said that the legislators have actually disregarded the clamour for resource control being made by the Southern Governors’ Forum and the Southern caucus of the federal legislators.

HURIWA, even more stated that Nigerians will not tolerate any self-serving and unpatriotic arrangements in the constitution such as the resistance and life pension for principal officers and judicial officers.

“These arrangements should be expunged from the proposed modifications because they are not progressive arrangements and they will create crisis of authenticity for the modified constitution,” HURIWA warned.

The group said Nigeria should get right this time around by having a comprehensive evaluation of the Constitution, which according to it, must be the last of the amendments for a long time to come.