President Goodluck Jonathan announced Friday the constitution of a Presidential Committee to study and draw up the implementation strategy for the just concluded 2014 National Conference, with . Attorney-General of the Federation & Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adokie, SAN, as chairman.
The Assistant Director (Press),Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) Mr. Johnson Oise, in a statement announcing the committee, named other members of the committee to include: Senator Idris Umar, Minister of Transport, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda, Minister of State for Finance, Osita Chidoka, Minister of Aviation, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory Administration, Architect Mike Onolememen, Minister of Works while Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, Secretary to the Government of the Federation would serve as Secretary.
According to the terms of reference, the committee is to caary out in-depth study of the Report of the 2014 National Conference, articulate the recommendations therein and develop appropriate strategies for its implementation.
The committee would also advise Government on all matters necessary for the effective implementation of the Report as well as give necessary encouragement to take off immediately.
As the Conference was declared closed by President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday August 21, a major pressure group emerged out of the 494 delegates to push for implementation of the resolutions of the conference.
The group, “National Consensus Initiative”, vowed to ensure that the report of the National Conference submitted to President Jonathan was faithfully implemented.
The Interim Coordinator of the group, Mr. Remi Olatubora, said that it would be unfair for such recommendations generated by the delegates to be left to gather dust.
Olatubora who led Ondo State delegates to the Conference, disclosed that the group would work together as advocacy group towards ensuring that “decisions of the conference are not left in the shelf to gather dust in the manner in which the reports of earlier conferences were treated”.
He added that the desire to come together in a group was informed by common desire of most of the delegates that all relevant governmental organs and agencies implement the decisions of the conference.
