The
Senate on Tuesday finally passed a bill to make the Nigerian Peace Corps a
para-military agency.
The Senate adopted the conference report on the
bill to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps, after it was so advised by its
committee on judiciary, human rights and legal matters.
Both the Senate and the House of
Representatives had separately passed the bill last year.
However, after the harmonisation of the two
separate bills, the Senate had rejected the harmonised version, which has now
been approved.
The bill will be sent to President Muhammadu
Buhari for assent after the House also approves the harmonised version.
It is not clear if the presidency will approve
of the bill as several departments in the executive including the police and
the military are opposed to the legalisation of the Peace Corps which is
currently a private NGO.
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