Constitution Amendment: Reps committee adopts bill seeking to confer citizenship on foreigners married to Nigerian women

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The existing law only allows citizenship by registration to be conferred on foreigners married to Nigerian men.

She said the bill seeks to amend section26 of the 1999 Constitution by opening citizenship by registration to male and female., who chairs the committee, while speaking on the bill, called for more clarification on the specifics regarding the bill.

“Even within the context of our culture, I want to give an example of Idoma culture, you can only bury an Idoma woman in her homeland. In this age, we have a lot of attachment to our culture,” Mr Wase said. Ms Ezeilo argued that citizenship is not automatic, noting that the bill seeks to replace “any woman” with “any person”, which according to her is discriminatory.

 

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Of what need it this amendment when noncitizens from across our borders do participate in our electoral process

When we the real citizens are not well taken good care of?

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