Fifty-three years after the Nigerian civil battle, the Home of Representatives on Thursday handed via a 3rd studying of the invoice looking for the institution of the South East Growth Fee.
The Home unanimously adopted the suggestions of the invoice in the course of the Committee of the Complete chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu.
Standing in Kalu’s identify because the lead sponsor and certainly, all of the lawmakers from the Southeast area, the explanatory memorandum of the invoice acknowledged that the Fee could be charged with the accountability to obtain and handle funds from allocation of the Federation Account for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of roads, homes and different infrastructural damages suffered by the area because of the impact of the civil battle.
When established, the Fee can even deal with the ecological issues and another associated environmental or developmental challenges within the Southeast States which embrace Abia, Imo, Enugu, Anambra and Ebonyi.
By the way, the passage of the invoice is coming at a time when members of the Nationwide Meeting from the area led by the deputy speaker are championing a brand new initiative generally known as the Peace in South East Challenge (PISE-P) which is longing for a non-kinetic method to resolving the socio-economic and sociological challenges and in addition increase the infrastructural improvement of the realm.
The Third Studying of the invoice implies that it’s going to now be taken to the Senate for concurrence earlier than will probably be transmitted to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his assent to make it a legislation.
Equally, the Home additionally handed via third studying a invoice looking for to repeal the Weights and Measures Act, 2004 to determine the Nigerian Weights and Measures Regulatory Company, for the event and enforcement of various scopes of authorized metrology requirements for the promotion of honest commerce, safety of public well being, security and the setting.
The Home additionally determined the Committee of the Complete whereas contemplating the report on the invoice.
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