Again, Senate passes Dickson Akor’s Peace Corps bill

For the second time, the senate has passed a bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Peace Corps.

The bill passed third reading after Sadiq Umar, chairman of the senate committee on interior, presented a report.

The bill is being sponsored by Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno north.

While presenting the report on the floor of the senate on Tuesday, Umar said his committee received “hundreds of memoranda” from stakeholders who are supporting the passage of the legislation.

The senator said the bill, if passed and assented to by the president, would help tackle rising unemployment in the country.

After presenting his report, the senate went into the “committee of the whole” where they considered and passed 40 sections of the bill.

The bill will be sent to the house of representatives for concurrence before it is submitted to the president for assent.

Peace Corps of Nigeria was founded by Dickson Akor.