The Nigeria Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, 2023 Conference Committee Report, has been approved by the Nigerian Senate.
The Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, Sen. Seriake Dickson presented the report at plenary on Tuesday. Dickson claims that the Senate and House of Representatives committees met and approved the House version.
According to him, the committee suggested keeping the title “Peace Corps of Nigeria“.
The member said that clause 38 (1) of the version passed by the Senate, which was in disagreement with the version passed by the House of Representatives as included under clause 38, was the key point of the accepted report (1).
The Senate’s version calls for the dissolution of the current National Unity and Peace Corps as well as the Peace Corps of Nigeria.
While the House of Representatives’ version of the bill just suggests that the existing Nigerian Peace Corps be dissolved and replaced with a new organisation called the Nigerian Peace Corps, subject to President Buhari’s approval.
The Conference report made it clear that a measure must pass through both chambers of the National Assembly in Nigeria in order to become an act of parliament.
This is a requirement that the National Unity and Peace Corps law was unable to meet because it was never discussed, in contrast to the Nigerian Peace Corps bill, which was discussed and approved by both Houses.