Constitution Review: Bauchi seeks creation of 29 additional LGAs

By Charly Agwam

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has approved a measure proposing the instauration of 29 further section authorities areas successful the state.

In a missive to Senator Barau Jibrin, Chairman of the Senate Committee connected Constitutional Review, the Acting Deputy Clerk of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Musa Yerima, sought the National Assembly’s support for the caller LGAs.

“We are pleased to pass you that the Bauchi State House of Assembly has passed a measure into instrumentality creating 29 caller section authorities areas successful Bauchi State, 2025,” the missive stated.

“The instauration of these further section authorities areas volition instrumentality effect erstwhile the National Assembly passes an Act to marque the indispensable provisions regarding their names, arsenic stipulated successful Section 8(5) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Yerima added.

He noted that the instrumentality was passed successful accordance with Subsection 3 of Section 100 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

It was gathered that Bauchi State forwarded the connection to the Committee connected Constitutional Review for ratification arsenic portion of the ongoing law amendment process.

Bauchi State, with a colonisation of astir 10 cardinal people, presently has 20 section authorities areas. With the projected summation of 29, the authorities would person a full of 49 LGAs.