Tambuwal gives 21-day ultimatum to Committee on PIB Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, on Tuesday, directed the ad hoc committee on Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to submit its report within 21 days. Tambuwal gave the directive while declaring open the 8th legislative session of the seventh assembly. The 23-member ad hoc committee, headed by Ishaka Bawa, was inaugurated with a view to fine-tuning the PIB, which scaled through second reading. The House also conducted a regional public hearing as part of effort to take input of Nigerians on the proposed bill. While speaking on the activities of the Boko Haram in the North-East region, the Speaker announced that the House will contribute the sum of N200 million into the terror victim support fund. On resumption from the closed-door session, which lasted for over two hours where the lawmakers exhaustively deliberated on the terrorist attack on the three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, Tambuwal directed the House Committee on Defence to liaise with the leadership of Senate and its Committee on Defence on how to give maximum support to Federal Government.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:18:53 +0000
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