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Buhari will sign Peace Corps Bill -Senator
Ohuabunwa
By Yemi Itodo
The Senator representing Abia North in the
National Assembly, Senator Mao
Ohuabunwa, has assured Nigerian youths
that President Muhammad Buhari would
gladly assent to the Bill establishing Nigerian
Peace Corps.
The Bill, which was overwhelmingly
ed and ed at the National
Assembly last year was submitted to the
presidency for assent on 27th December
2017.
Though the President has remained mute
on whether he would sign the Bill or not,
but a headline from a Nigerian newspaper
generated heat on Saturday, suggesting
that the President may have refused to
append his signature.
Reacting to the rumour on Wednesday,
Senator Ohuabunwa said the President has
no reason not to sign the Bill, saying it is
people's Bill which tends to create
employment.
"Speaking to the fact, I don't really see the
President withholding his assent. This is the
people's bill. This is a bill that will create
employment for the youth and ,
when we were discussing insecurity, I
made an allusion to the fact that, even this
young men and women can be trained as
intelligent officers like we have seen.
Security now has gone beyond matchet and
guns, we need a lot of intelligence,
technology.
"These guys can be trained and I think this
is also an avenue to reduce not only
employment, but even underemployment. I
want to believe that the President will jump
at this and definitely assent to this Bill", he
said.
The lawmaker also emphasised that the
National Assembly could exercise its
constitutional powers to override the
President should he refuses to assent to the
Bill.
He said, "if the contrary happens, there is
always a channel of communication, he will
send it back to us then we definitely know
what to do from there.
"I don't want to preempt, but if it is true the
President has withheld his assent, then we
have our statutory responsibility either to
veto or override the President veto",
Ohuabunwa added.
The lawmaker also frowned at the
continuous siege on the office of the Corps
by the Nigeria Police, saying he was
misinformed that the Police had vacated the
office, otherwise, he would have moved a
motion to that effect on the floor on
Wednesday.
He, however, said he would not hesitate to
bring the matter up to the knowledge of his
colleagues, should the Police continue to lay
siege on the office in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of
Peace Corps of Nigeria, Patriot Millicent
Umoru, has said the national headquarters
of the Corps located at Jabi, Abuja, was still
under lock and keys, contrary to the rumour
that the Police had vacated the premises.
Umoru while addressing newsmen on
Wednesday, said despite the two court
orders given recently and the directive of
the House of Representatives that Police
should unseal the office, the FCT
Commissioner of Police, Sadiq Bello, pleaded
last week that the office would be open
within 7 days, but the status quo has
remained up till the 7th day.
"This promise was made last week
Thursday and till now, the office is still
under lock and key.
"We were there today and it was confirmed
that the police men are still there and the
van is still stationed there so there is no
indication that they are even ready to leave
as at the time we went there", the PRO said.
As peace loving and non violent
organization, Umoru said the Corps would
return to the National Assembly "and
the information to them that up till now, the
place is still sealed up."
http://dailypost.ng/2018/02/22/buhari-will-sign-peace-corps-bill-senator-ohuabunwa/

We're waiting.

Absolutely unnecessary!!!!
We already have
1 Police
2 Civil Defense
3 FRSC
4 Immigration
4 Customs
5 VIO
6 NIA
7 DSS etc
How many paramilitary agencies exactly does a country need?
Those bloody lawmakers are shortsighted.

[quote author=samsard post=65290643]Absolutely unnecessary!!!!
We already have
1 Police
2 Civil Defense
3 FRSC
4 Immigration
4 Customs
5 VIO
6 NIA
7 DSS etc
How many paramilitary agencies exactly does a country need?
Those bloody lawmakers are shortsighted. He's going to sign it...and notin u can do abt it....pele

samsard:
Absolutely unnecessary!!!!
We already have
1 Police
2 Civil Defense
3 FRSC
4 Immigration
4 Customs
5 VIO
6 NIA
7 DSS etc
How many paramilitary agencies exactly does a country need?
Those bloody lawmakers are shortsighted.

this is part of the problem we have in Nigeria..I believe you have a relative somewhere seriously waiting for this job to be off labour market.You are here talking rubbish.

donc26:
this is part of the problem we have in Nigeria..I believe you have a relative somewhere seriously waiting for this job to be off labour market.You are here talking rubbish.

Don't mind him.

Buhari don sign am put jara. Haters go ND hug transformer. Peace corp will give people job ok The high rate of unemployment is high ok. So God will do it ok.

Nigeria does not need such. Who will foot it's bill. instead we should empower the ones we have.

CID11:
Nigeria does not need such. Who will foot it's bill. instead we should empower the ones we have.

. Ow is dat ur bizness.... www.haters.com

CID11:
Nigeria does not need such. Who will foot it's bill. instead we should empower the ones we have.

na your papa money? idiot

donc26:
this is part of the problem we have in Nigeria..I believe you have a relative somewhere seriously waiting for this job to be off labour market.You are here talking rubbish.

are you daft or something? which of the progressive countries in the world create jobs by duplicating already existing departments & agencies etc? And so coz i have unemployed folks, i should stop being objective? jesus! Nigerians are really shortsighted

samsard:
are you daft or something? which of the progressive countries in the world create jobs by duplicating already existing departments & agencies etc? And so coz i have unemployed folks, i should stop being objective? jesus! Nigerians are really shortsighted

hey Mr or whatever you call yourself take your silly self and get out of my thread. Anu-ofia.

Your father will foot they bill.

CID11:
Nigeria does not need such. Who will foot it's bill. instead we should empower the ones we have.

donc26:
hey Mr or whatever you call yourself take your silly self and get out of my thread. Anu-ofia.

This is a public forum, you'd have to be mad and desperately JOBLESS to think you can police me coz you opened a thread.

samsard:
This is a public forum, you'd have to be mad and desperately JOBLESS to think you can police me coz you opened a thread.

funny enough this dude has been searching for job in GTB. you should be ashamed of your miserable self. one would think you work with a multi national company with your rants not knowing you are still jobless.

My peoples, let look at what we are facing in the country nowadays, what are the aims of established peace corps of Nigeria ,let forget about who to fund them their is money in this country. Out of there aims is to eradicate crime form primary school to tertiary institution, Neighborhood watch, employment for the youth etc out of those parliamentary they mention above which one is carried out these assignments. We needs security in all our institutions let look at want happen in chibok, now yobe, issues of Fulani herdsmen are they not all these mentioning parliamentary who can tackle or alert them on time, don't let us be bias on this issue. We are talking about my and your own live not politician because they have security protecting them already.

donc26:
funny enough this dude has been searching for job in GTB. you should be ashamed of your miserable self. one would think you work with a multi national company with your rants not knowing you are still jobless.

Between you and I, who sounds more miserable?? SMH
You really think I have to be high up the food chain to be objective on an issue? Or you just can't picture someone saying something without sentiments?
Face the facts, we don't need another paramilitary agency, we have too many already.
Civil defence for example is neither here nor there: duplicating police functions.
If both Nigerian leadership and followership hadn't failed monumentally, we won't be debating if this was a good way of creating jobs.

K2asure:
My peoples, let look at what we are facing in the country nowadays, what are the aims of established peace corps of Nigeria ,let forget about who to fund them their is money in this country. Out of there aims is to eradicate crime form primary school to tertiary institution, Neighborhood watch, employment for the youth etc out of those parliamentary they mention above which one is carried out these assignments. We needs security in all our institutions let look at want happen in chibok, now yobe, issues of Fulani herdsmen are they not all these mentioning parliamentary who can tackle or alert them on time, don't let us be bias on this issue. We are talking about my and your own live not politician because they have security protecting them already.

But these things you just mentioned sound more like police functions, and we have civil defense already literally laying around doing nothing.
At least you're making a case for your point of view, these other guys simply attack anyone with a differing view.

samsard:

Between you and I, who sounds more miserable?? SMH
You really think I have to be high up the food chain to be objective on an issue? Or you just can't picture someone saying something without sentiments?
Face the facts, we don't need another paramilitary agency, we have too many already.
Civil defence for example is neither here nor there: duplicating police functions.
If both Nigerian leadership and followership hadn't failed monumentally, we won't be debating if this was a good way of creating jobs.

maybe u should reconsider ur views on the said duplication of dese agencies in Nigeria as they exist bearing different names in progressive countries. A major issue here is security. Don't see why more agencies to tackle them will raise too much negative s.

samsard:
Absolutely unnecessary!!!!
We already have
1 Police
2 Civil Defense
3 FRSC
4 Immigration
4 Customs
5 VIO
6 NIA
7 DSS etc
How many paramilitary agencies exactly does a country need?
Those bloody lawmakers are shortsighted.

Israel with the total population of about 8m,has about 1m active service men and about 1m on reserved,that is the IDF alone.
Can you tell me the total population of Nigeria and the total number of the above mentioned paramilitary put together?

Toktee:
Israel with the total population of about 8m,has about 1m active service men and about 1m on reserved,that is the IDF alone.
Can you tell me the total population of Nigeria and the total number of the above mentioned paramilitary put together?

stop quoting this kid.you are making him feel important

Buhari is too wise to sign that shiit.


We don't need the bushiit.

samsard:
are you daft or something? which of the progressive countries in the world create jobs by duplicating already existing departments & agencies etc? And so coz i have unemployed folks, i should stop being objective? jesus! Nigerians are really shortsighted

anything that will reduce the unemployment rate in the country is welcomed,after this one is ed,abeg,make them establish state police,so that some unemployed folks can have something doing,unemployment kills faster that sniper,i dont even wish an enemy that

samsard:
Absolutely unnecessary!!!!
We already have
1 Police
2 Civil Defense
3 FRSC
4 Immigration
4 Customs
5 VIO
6 NIA
7 DSS etc
How many paramilitary agencies exactly does a country need?
Those bloody lawmakers are shortsighted.

The entire Nigerian army is 200,000,NpF IS 370,000,etc,put the above mentioned together,they are not up to 1.5m,against almost 200,000,000 population,no wonder we are faced with insecurity in this country.

idu1:
Buhari is too wise to sign that shiit.


We don't need the bushiit.

Because you applied without succes,now it has become shit,pathetic.

Toktee:
Because you applied without succes,now it has become shit,pathetic.

it's like you are unfortunate human being


Wetin dey peace corp?

Start something better with your life the year is still very early

donc26:
hey Mr or whatever you call yourself take your silly self and get out of my thread. Anu-ofia.

Lol. This one don pay money tire for peace corp.

idu1:
it's like you are unfortunate human being


Wetin dey peace corp?

Start something better with your life the year is still very early

Thank God you said "is lik" that means you'r not sure.

donc26:
Buhari will sign Peace Corps Bill -Senator
Ohuabunwa
By Yemi Itodo
The Senator representing Abia North in the
National Assembly, Senator Mao
Ohuabunwa, has assured Nigerian youths
that President Muhammad Buhari would
gladly assent to the Bill establishing Nigerian
Peace Corps.
The Bill, which was overwhelmingly
ed and ed at the National
Assembly last year was submitted to the
presidency for assent on 27th December
2017.
Though the President has remained mute
on whether he would sign the Bill or not,
but a headline from a Nigerian newspaper
generated heat on Saturday, suggesting
that the President may have refused to
append his signature.
Reacting to the rumour on Wednesday,
Senator Ohuabunwa said the President has
no reason not to sign the Bill, saying it is
people's Bill which tends to create
employment.
"Speaking to the fact, I don't really see the
President withholding his assent. This is the
people's bill. This is a bill that will create
employment for the youth and ,
when we were discussing insecurity, I
made an allusion to the fact that, even this
young men and women can be trained as
intelligent officers like we have seen.
Security now has gone beyond matchet and
guns, we need a lot of intelligence,
technology.
"These guys can be trained and I think this
is also an avenue to reduce not only
employment, but even underemployment. I
want to believe that the President will jump
at this and definitely assent to this Bill", he
said.
The lawmaker also emphasised that the
National Assembly could exercise its
constitutional powers to override the
President should he refuses to assent to the
Bill.
He said, "if the contrary happens, there is
always a channel of communication, he will
send it back to us then we definitely know
what to do from there.
"I don't want to preempt, but if it is true the
President has withheld his assent, then we
have our statutory responsibility either to
veto or override the President veto",
Ohuabunwa added.
The lawmaker also frowned at the
continuous siege on the office of the Corps
by the Nigeria Police, saying he was
misinformed that the Police had vacated the
office, otherwise, he would have moved a
motion to that effect on the floor on
Wednesday.
He, however, said he would not hesitate to
bring the matter up to the knowledge of his
colleagues, should the Police continue to lay
siege on the office in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of
Peace Corps of Nigeria, Patriot Millicent
Umoru, has said the national headquarters
of the Corps located at Jabi, Abuja, was still
under lock and keys, contrary to the rumour
that the Police had vacated the premises.
Umoru while addressing newsmen on
Wednesday, said despite the two court
orders given recently and the directive of
the House of Representatives that Police
should unseal the office, the FCT
Commissioner of Police, Sadiq Bello, pleaded
last week that the office would be open
within 7 days, but the status quo has
remained up till the 7th day.
"This promise was made last week
Thursday and till now, the office is still
under lock and key.
"We were there today and it was confirmed
that the police men are still there and the
van is still stationed there so there is no
indication that they are even ready to leave
as at the time we went there", the PRO said.
As peace loving and non violent
organization, Umoru said the Corps would
return to the National Assembly "and
the information to them that up till now, the
place is still sealed up."
http://dailypost.ng/2018/02/22/buhari-will-sign-peace-corps-bill-senator-ohuabunwa/

stupid people..Keep waiteing for something than can never be done..Is any of the DG Hausa man??

Nutase:
We're waiting.

stupid people..Keep waiteing for something than can never be done..Is any of the DG Hausa man??

donc26:
this is part of the problem we have in Nigeria..I believe you have a relative somewhere seriously waiting for this job to be off labour market.You are here talking rubbish.

stupid people..Keep waiteing for something than can never be done..Is any of the DG Hausa man??

damiBJ:
. Ow is dat ur bizness.... www.haters.com

stupid people..Keep waiteing for something than can never be done..Is any of the DG Hausa man??