Bill to establish Peace Corps passes third reading
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed, for a third reading, a ‘Bill for an Act to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps’.
The bill was jointly sponsored by Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu and majority leader Julius Ihonvbere, among others, at the plenary in Abuja.
The bill is titled ‘Bill for an Act to Establish Nigerian Peace Corps to Facilitate Peace, Volunteerism, Community Services, Neighbourhood Watch, Nation Building and for Related Matters’, to give statutory backing to the existing Peace Corps of Nigeria.
However, less than two months after the passage, a motion for rescission of the Nigerian Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, 2023, was moved on the floor of the house by Rep. Francis Waive (PDP-Delta).
Waive noted that after the bill’s passage, new facts emerged that would strengthen the corps’ functions and operational structure. He added that this was why the house rescinded its decision on the bill and recommended it to the Committee of the Whole for reconsideration and passage.
The bill sought to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps as a body charged with developing, empowering and providing gainful employment for youths.
By this passage, the Nigerian Peace Corps establishment Bill would go to the Senate for concurrence and eventual transmission to the president.
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