A bill to alter the 1999 Constitution as amended to create Etiti state in the southeast scaled through the first reading in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 2.
Sponsored by Hon. Amobi Ogah, Hon. Miriam Okinawa Onuoha, Hon. Kama Nkemkama, Hon. Chinwe Nnabuife, and Hon. Anayo Onwuegbu, the proposed state is to be created out of the present Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo states.
When created, the new state will have 11 local government areas drawn from the five states with headquarters at Lokpanta.
The bill seeks to alter three sections of the 1999 constitution, to delete the word 36 and replace it with the word 37 to accommodate the new state, and to insert the word Etiti, immediately after Enugu in the list of states contained in the Constitution.
It also seeks to alter the listing of local government according to states and transfer the 11 local government areas from their current states to the new state.
The local governments to be affected are Isuikwuato and Umu-Nneochi (Abia), Orumba North and Orumba South (Anambra), Ivo and Ohaozara (Ebonyi), Aninri, Awgu and Oji River (Enugu) as well as Okigwe and Onuimo (Imo).
