The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Enang, says Nigeria Peace Corps Bill is yet to be presented to the President for assent.<\/p>\n
He said at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja that the bill was yet to complete its legislative process at the National Assembly.<\/p>\n
Enang said that he was unaware of any bill that had been passed by the legislature that was pending before Buhari for his endorsement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have heard some members of the public saying that the Petroleum Industry Bill has been passed and has not been assented to.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome said that the Peace Corp Bill has been passed and sent to the president and has not been signed or that it is already a law and people have started buying forms.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome said that they have started sowing uniform and that some states have started operations, as if Peace Corp, as if it were, is a law.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to use this opportunity to say the Peace Corp legislative process has not yet been completed to the extent that it should be forwarded to the president<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has not been forwarded to the president and so, it is not yet pending for assent,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Enang advised the public not to be worried about the bill, and warned that anybody acting on the bill, whose legislative processes were yet to be completed, was illegal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Bill processes have not been completed and it has not been forwarded to the president for assented to become law, and therefore, anything anybody does, using the bill is at the person\u2019s risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an agency that has not been established, it cannot start operation; it cannot engage people, it cannot generate revenue unless and until it is established by law. Therefore, I will urge Nigerians not to be worried.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last time before the bill went back to the legislature, the Federal Government, the police and other agencies did something to draw attention to the status of the Peace Corp but it does appear that it is going back to where it was.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
It would be recalled that Bill establishing the Corps, which was sponsored by Sen. Bayero Nafada (APC-Gombe), was passed by the Senate in July, 2017.<\/p>\n
The bill was passed in a unanimous voice vote after the Chairman, Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Sen. David Umaru, had presented report on issues surrounding adoption of the conference report on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Enang, says Nigeria Peace Corps Bill is yet to be presented to the President for assent. He said at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja that the bill was yet to complete its legislative process at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[39377,20554,7488],"yoast_head":"\n