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Bill sponsored by Umar Buba Jibril seeks to regulate activities of Non-Governmental Organisations and Civil Society Groups

A bill tagged “The bill for an act to provide for the establishment of Non-Governmental Organisations regulatory commission for the supervision, coordination and monitoring of Non-Governmental Organisation and Civil Society Organisations, etc in Nigeria and for related matter” sponsored by the Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Umar Buba Jibril, which has passed first and second reading, has generated reactions after its revival recently.

Senator Sani Shehu representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, who is against the bill, have said that the bill will be abused by the Government when it becomes law. In a facebook post the Senator said

“The increasing cases of human rights abuses and intolerance to divergent views across the country makes it dangerous to endorse or support any bill aimed at ‘regulating the activities of the NGOs’.

“I will stand against this bill to protect and preserve our fundamental rights to freedom of expression and assembly”.

“The tendency of the bill when it becomes law be abused by people in the position of power is clear”.

The bill, which was first introduced in 2016, seeks to regulate the activities of NGOs and Civil Society Groups in Nigeria.

Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, an anti-graft Group, have said there were already adequate regulatory mechanisms to monitor NGOs’ activities, adding that the lawmakers were troubled by idleness and the huge pay they get for doing nothing.

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