Former Vice Chancellor of Abia State University, Uturu, Prof. Mkpa Agu Mkpa, has called on the National Assembly to look into the 2014 Constitutional Conference report.
Mkpa made the call in Abuja on Wednesday while delivering the keynote lecture for the African School of Diplomacy and International Relations’ third annual public lecture series, induction, and conferment of honorary doctorate degrees.
He pointed out that the paper addressed the majority of the country’s development challenges.
The event with the theme, ‘The Political Economy of Nation-Building: The World’s Unfinished Business’ was organized in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
He said, “That conference made landmark recommendations which, had they been implemented, could have accelerated the tempo of our nation-building efforts,’’ he said.
Mkpa submitted that if individuals were bigger than institutions, the country would never move forward, and nation-building would become an illusion.
He said military coups in some African countries were the result of unfinished business in those countries’ nation-building, and Nigerian authorities should use the report of the 2014 Constitutional Conference to normalize things.
“One of the most near-successful efforts in Nigeria’s history of nation-building, that would have arrested most if not all the stumbling blocks towards the nation’s unsteady march towards nation-building, was the national conference of 2014,” he declared.
