President Tinubu has approved the South-West and South-South development bill and officially signed into to law.
This was announced by Benjamin Kalu, the deputy speaker of the house of representative on Wednesday during a plenary session.
The deputy speaker said “No mechanism is too much to trickle down development and dividends of democracy to the grassroots.
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“I am sure that with these development commissions, the impact of this administration will be felt by the grassroots.
“We thank Mr. president for completing it to the entire geo-political zones,”.
While the plenary session was ongoing on Tuesday, the senate president, Godswill Akpabio confirmed to the house that the South-West Development Commission Bill and South-South Development Commission Bill into law bad been signed into law by President Tinubu
Senate president Akpabio said “Just to inform distinguished senators that Mr President has assented to the remaining regional development bills, the South-west Development Commission and the South-south Development Commission Bill. We now have all the developmental commissions legally in existence,”
He further expressed gratitude to Tinubu for his cooperation with the National Assembly and subsequently signing the bills establishing the commissions into law stating that more employment opportunities would be created from the development commission.
“We thank the president. We are grateful for his cooperation. We are grateful for creating jobs. We are also grateful to have taken development to the grassroots level,” Akpabio added.
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The Senate had initially passed the SWDC bill sponsored by Ogun East Senator Gbenga Daniel in September 2024 with majority support before being transferred to the House of Representatives for approval.
Following this, the SSDC bill sponsored by Cross-River South Senator Asuquo Ekpenyong was passed in October 2024 and forwarded to the House of Representatives.
These new commissions join the North-West Development Commission and the South-East Commission, both of which were signed into law by Tinubu in July 2024.
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