The Senate on Tuesday passed five bills from the House of Representatives for concurrence. The bills include Public Enterprises (Privatization and Commercialization) Act (Repeal & Enactment) Bill, 2022;
and Orthopaedic Hospitals Management Board Act (Amendment) Bill, 2022. Others are the Chartered Institute of Social Work Practitioners (Establishment) Bill, 2022; Nigeria Council for Social Work (Establishment) Bill, 2022;
and the Chartered Institute of Professional Secretarial of Nigeria (Establishment) Bill, 2022. The five bills, sponsored by the Deputy Senate Leader, Ajayi Boroffice, were passed after consideration by the Committee of the Whole. In a related development,
the Senate, passed the Nigeria Postal Services (Repeal and re[1]enactment) Bill, 2022. Also passed were the Chartered Institute of Public Administration of Nigeria (Establishment) Bill, 2022; and Raw Materials Research and Development Council Act 2004 (Repeal and Re[1]enactment) Bill, 2022. The three bills were passed after re-committal to the Committee of the Whole.
The motion for recommittal was sponsored by the Deputy Senate Leader, Ajayi Boroffice. Boroffice, in his presentation, observed that “some fundamental issues which require fresh legislative action by both Chambers of the National Assembly emerged after a critical analysis of the bills by Mr. President C – in – C.”
He said that a Technical Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives and Directorate of Legal Services met and worked on the bills.