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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