Finally, Senate Passes Peace Corps Bill
By Lawan Bukar Maigana
The Peace Corps Bill sponsored by the senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has been passed by the Senate.
The bill seeks legal recognition for the establishment of the Peace Corps as a government parastatal, thereby creating job opportunities for graduates and non-graduates.
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The Corps has at least 187,000 volunteers across the country.
The eighth senate passed the bill in late 2017 but President Buhari rejected it in February 2018, citing insecurity and paucity of resources as reasons for the decision.
Ndume said that the reasons given by the presidency for not assenting the bill in the eighth Senate have been addressed in the bill, saying: “The bill is timely considering the high rate of unemployment in the country.”
