Machinery for transmitting Bill seeking for an Act to establish the Nigeria Peace Corps to President Muhammadu Buhari has been set in motion in the National Assembly after the inauguration of a conference committee that will harmonize the reports of the Senate and the House of Representatives .
The House of Representatives took the lead by constituting a six-man Conference Committee that will work with their Senate counterpart to harmonize and produce a clean copy of the Bill for onward transmission to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.
Reacting to the development, the Commandant, Peace Corps Nigeria, Anambra State, Mr Innocent Okolo while explaining that the Conference Committee members are expected to look out for discrepancies and harmonize them before forwarding the clean copy to the Presidency, expressed optimism that the harmonization process will be completed before the Lawmakers proceed on campaign recess so as to quicken Presidential Assent to it.
Mr Okolo said that the expectations of Nigerians, especially youths will come to fulfillment in no distant time and urged Ndi Anambra to enroll with the command as the State has over three hundred slots for those wishing to join the corps and called on existing staff of the corps to report to the state office or local government areas for briefing.
The Bill, among others, seeks to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps as a body charged with the responsibility to develop, empower and provide gainful employment to youths, facilitate peace, volunteerism,, Community Service, Neighborhood Watch and Nation building.
According to part eight of the passed Bill, when assented to by President Buhari, would give statutory backing to the existing Peace Corps of Nigeria.
So far, the organization has structured offices in the thirty-six States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
It also has membership strength of over one hundred and eighty-seven thousand comprising regular staff and volunteers but the bill was denied assent by President Buhari in 2018 when the eighth Assembly transmitted it to him.
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