IKEJA — Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, set up a committee to draft the state memoranda for the constitutional amendment being proposed by the National Assembly.

Chairman of the committee is Mr Ajibola Adeyeye.

The committee was set up by the Deputy Speaker, Mr Taiwo Kolawole, who presided over the day’s sitting, after Adeyeye raised a motion on the advertorial by the Senate calling for memoranda towards the amendment of the 1999 Constitution.

He said there was the need for the state and Lagosians to state unequivocally “our position on the proposed constitutional amendment, highlighting clearly, areas in the constitution that require urgent amendment as dictated by our interaction with the executive, judiciary and Lagosians at large.”

He observed that previous amendment to the constitution did not address the salient and topical issues in the constitution; thereby not meeting the yearnings and aspirations of Lagosians and Nigerians in general.

The House consequently set up the committee to draft a Lagos memoranda for constitutional amendment