The amount of responsibility bestowed on
the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen.
Pius Anyim, in organising the conference is indeed enormous. It was his
office that compiled the list of delegates, got the venue, prepared the
bags and its contents, supervised accreditation and arranged other
logistics for the smooth take-off of the conference.
It was probably the enormity of his
responsibility that made Anyim doze off on the day President Goodluck
Jonathan inaugurated the conference committee.
Anyim, who welcomed delegates to the
conference, slept throughout the 22 minutes that President Jonathan
spoke. But intermittently, Anyim shook his head as delegates clapped in
response to points raised by the President in his speech.
Although no provision was made for
members to sleep in the conference hall, some delegates were also seen
napping. Their sleep was, however, interrupted when other delegates
raised their voices in heated arguments.
One of the delegates had asked the
Chairman of the conference, Justice Idris Kutigi, to caution journalists
against reports on sleeping members. But a delegate from the
South-West, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, told the conference that the floor
should not be used as a sleeping ground.
“If instead of doing what we are supposed
to do, we come here to sleep, then it is not a bad thing if journalists
report that,” Odumakin said.
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