House of Reps Denies passage National Unity and Peace Corps Bill
Addressing journalists in Abuja on Friday, February 10, 2017, Reps spokesman, Abdulrazak Namdas said the National Assembly did not merge any organisation with the Nigerian Peace Corps.
“One thing I want to clarify is that in the House, we don’t have any Bill known as National Unity and Peace Corps Bill,” Reps spokesman said.
“I want to say that we don’t have anything as National Unity and Peace Corps or anything said to be harmonized. A bill passed in the House of Representatives or Senate alone can not be a law, so a conference committee (Senate and Reps) was put in place on the 8th of December, 2016. This Conference Committee identified about 12 clauses that differ and, they sat down to harmonize the clauses”, Namdas noted.
According to him, the conference committee of both chambers recommended that interested parties should obtain the enrollment form and undergo the stipulated mandatory orientation programme.
“However, there is a clause that provided that, people of great interest, common interest, should be accommodated, we will like to quote that particular clause.
“‘Groups, associations that have similar objectives and have shown or are interested, shall be absolved as members of the Nigerian Peace Corps, subject to the mandatory limited training structure and teaching programme as prescribed, from time to time, upon the commencement of this act,” he added.
Culled from Pulse NG: http://pulse.ng/local/national-assembly-reps-deny-passage-of-national-unity-and-peace-corps-bill-id6202684.html
What of those that buy the form of the national unity and peace corps at 70000k
it’s welcome development in our country
on peace corp we stand.
What is wrong with our govt, After all we had spent.
We are praying govt to consider them so that youths are getting jobs.
All this argument and fighting will lead us nowhere, is this how they claim to be an ambassador of peace with this kind of greedy and unforgivable attitude, then non is qualify to rule as leader of peace, when from home they can’t maintained peace then how can they be able to create peace, let me not be force to say with angry heart that they are just after the money and not the nation peace. I am not indeed happy with the attitude of the leaders ( national unity and peace corp and the peace corps of nigeria), if they are coming together as one then they should in peace agree to and restructure thier settings ,the two bodies should agree in peace and operate in peace for peace to stand, after spending money on form and other things, they now say this group are fake or that group are fake, they should coming as one and work in peace.
government should do something very fast about the bill to establish Nigeria Peace Corps. we have waited for too long.
Thanks to House of Representatives for clarity
I was about to buy the forms for national unity and peace corps but i later discovered that it wasnt the bill that was passed by the senate and the House of Reps,it was the nigerian peace corps. There is a clause in the bill which authorised that those organizations,groups and associations like the natnl unity and peace corps that has thesame objectives should also be accommodated by the nigerian peace corps. My question is that those of us that we have the natnl unity and peace corps form, should we go ahead and fill the forms so that we will be accommodated and absorbed by the nigerian peace corps-the bill that passed by both houses?