By Muhammad Tanko Shittu
Jos
Participants at the just concluded 24th annual national seminar organised by Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa’Ikamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS) has frowned at the use of official “mace” in the Nigeria’s legislative process.
The JIBWIS, in an 11 points communique frowned at the manner at which the Nigeria’s legislature is using “mace” to judge on issues of importance in Nigeria.
“There is strong need to revisit the use of “Mace” in Nigeria’s legislative process giving its non-entrenchment in the constitution and other laws with serious religious implications,” it read in part.
It said: “We are not supporting the use of mace to judge on issues of importance in Nigeria.
“Our speakers should be made to be judging things with physical happenings not by hitting the gavel,” it added.
According to it, the use gable has caused for exchange of blows among legislators, they called for transparent amendment of the constitution, where all people will also participate.
They further frowned at equal representation for electoral wards, state houses of assemblies and the Senate, appealing for delimitation of constitituencies/Senatorial districts to add representation for densely populated areas.
“You cannot compare the size of a senatorial district in Kano, with that of others like in Bayelsa state, and some others like that,” it said.
It calls on the general public to be wary of the activities of soothsayers and fortune tellers who through evil machinations have been pushing People into cultism and other vices.
About 982 persons drawn from more than 20 stares of the federation and some neighbouring West African countries, participated in the seminar, which featured paper presentations on topical issues bothering on Nigeria’s situation.