According to Labaran a committee to be chaired by the Attorney General of the Federation had been raised to work on the report. Maku explained that every country that is a signatory presents a report every four years stating the profile of the human right situation and what government and communities are doing to promote the enforcement of universal human rights across the world.
The bill is now waiting for Presidential assent. According to Maku, from the report submitted to the UN in , 32 issues had been raised and Nigeria had so far dealt with 30 of them.
He said Nigeria has been able to succeed in area of press freedom and women representation amongst others. However, the issue of same sex marriage is one of the two areas it was still deferring with other countries. The other is that of death penalty. We believe that Nigeria should be able to work on its own position particularly that reflects both segments of the Nigerian society.
He also added that there were still philosophical, fundamental differences of opinion on the matter of the death penalty and it was it something of a national consensus. The FEC also discussed on the issue of constituency projects.
Maku said the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, reminded FEC that N50 billion has been set aside in a separate account for that purpose and urged MDAs handling in the implementation and execution of constituency projects to get ready for procurement.
