President Buhari signs Eight bills into law. Read which...

Nigeria - President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed eight bills into law.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang told State House correspondents after the signing ceremony.

According to him, the new Acts are the Prevention of Crime Amendment Act‎ 2016, the National Crop Varieties and Livestock Breeds (Registration) Amendment Act‎ 2016, Telecommunications and Postal Offences Amendment Act‎ 2016, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority Amendment Act‎ 2016.

Others are the Produce Enforcement of Export Standards  Amendment Act‎ 2016, the Agricultural and Rural Management ‎Training Institute Amendment Act‎ 2016, Bee Import Control and Management Amendment Act‎ 2016, and Water Resources Amendment Act‎ 2016‎.

He said: “Mr. President assented to eight bills passed by the National Assembly. The different bills are on different sectors of the economy and development.

“These bills were passed by the National Assembly and transmitted to Mr. President for assent and Mr. President today assented to it today and have automatically become law.

“Mr. President expresses his appreciation to leadership and membership of National Assembly, for the great work they did in considering the bills and the details that have gone in to consider the bills‎.

“Mr. President considers the Act as very vital to the present administration and in consonants with ‎All Progressive Congress agenda and thanks the National Assembly very much.

“He also directs that ministries, departments and agencies and all government functionaries, that whenever there is a bill pending before the National Assembly and there is a call for public hearing, they must attend and make inputs into those bills, so that those inputs will be taken into accounts by the legislature when considering the bill. So that when the bills are eventually passed it would be easier to implement,” he added.

According to him, the assent to the eight bills is unprecedented.
He said: “This is the very first time in this administration that eight bills are forwarded to him at a go for assent.

“In all my years in the National Assembly except for the 46 bills which were passed a day to the end of that administration, no such number bills have been passed and forwarded at once ‎to the President for assent and no such number of bills has been assented to at a record time.

“I also consider it a record that bills have been passed on various sector‎ and in giving assent to the bill it did not lead to rancour or disputation as to what should be in and what should not be in. This shows that the executive and the legislature are working together because the ministers attended every hearing that were called in respect of the bill.

“And all the ministers involved, the director generals all monitored the processes and procedures on the floor. And myself and my colleague Hon. Akau Ismaila monitored and worked with the committees while work on the bills were going on, and so it did not lead to any rancour in the course considering the bills on the floor and after passage it became easier for consultations and it has been assented to by Mr. President,” he said.

According to him, all the eight bills are member bills sponsored by members of the National Assembly.

He disclosed that there is presently no bill pending assent ‎before President Buhari as all bills sent to him have been assented to.

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