The House of Representatives on Thursday said it did not
pass a Bill for the implementation of Sharia law in the country.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public
Affairs, Abdulrazak Namdas (APC-Adamawa), told journalists in Abuja that
reports of such passage were “just a rumour.”
The Deputy Minority Leader of the House, Chukwuka Onyeama
(PDP-Anambra), affirmed this position.
According to Mr. Onyeama, the bill is before the House ad
hoc committee on the review of the constitution and for now it remains a
working document until it is forwarded for debate.
“When a bill for constitutional amendment is brought to the
House, it is forwarded to the committee on the review of the constitution.
“The committee will review it and present it to the House
for debate and it is only when it is tabled that we look at it.”
Onyeama said this at the briefing of the South/East caucus
of the House in Abuja.
“You see those of us sitting here are not sleeping and you
will see us on the floor when the bill comes. So, no Sharia bill has been
passed,” he said.
“The Bill to alter the 1999 Constitution to increase the
jurisdiction of the Sharia Courts”, also known as the “Sharia expansion bill”,
was sponsored by Abdullahi Salame (APC-Sokoto).
The bill seeks to expand the jurisdiction or increase the
existing powers of Sharia Courts to include criminal cases.
Salame seeks to amend sections 262 and 277 of the 1999
Constitution to add “criminal” to the existing provisions.
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