The present law awards insusceptibility to the President of Nigeria, VP, governors and their agents from criminal arraignment while in office.
In any case, the proposed enactment from the Senate looks to change this, yet bars the President from the proposed enactment.
The bill is intended to adjust the fundamental segments of the constitution to make it workable for law implementation organizations to capture and arraign the bad habit - president, governors or their delegates saw as blameworthy of assets' misappropriation.
The bill is titled , 'An Act to modify the arrangements of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria , 1999 , to qualify criminal risk for certain open officials under Section 308.'
It is supported by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the audit of the 1999 Constitution, who is additionally the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege.
The proposed revision looks to modify Section 308 of the Principal Act by subbing subsection 2 with another subsection.
It included that any recipient of the insusceptibility condition at present in the constitution would lose it whenever arraigned by the court after an intensive examination by the police and the counter - unite offices.
It peruses to a limited extent, "To people who hold the workplace of Vice - President , Governor or Deputy Governor .
" If it is resolved either by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, Nigeria Police and Department of State Services through a collective examination that the said individual is arraigned by a court of equipped purview for:
"( I ) Financial misappropriation of assets having a place with the Federal , State or Local Government ; or
"( ii ) Sponsoring of hooligans to execute savagery that cause injury or demise of political adversary, an individual from his family, specialist or individual agent."
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