passage of 46 bills into law less than 10 minutes they were introduced
by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita
Enang.
The 46 bills had recently been passed by the House of Representatives
and transmitted to the Senate for concurrence.
Before the passage, the Senate had said the life of the 7th Assembly
would expire in few days time and that enough resources had already
been expended in processing the bills, hence there was the need to
pass them and forward same to the President for his assent.
Consequently, the Red Chamber invoked Order 1 (b) of the Senate
Standing Order 2011 as amended to adopt a special procedure on the
bills for concurrence.
Besides, the Senate suspended Order 79 (1) of the Senate Standing
Orders and deemed that all the bills as having passed first, second
and third readings on the floor of the Senate and concurred same as
well as reproduced and circulated them to Senators.
According to Enang, the "bills by this resolution are hereby read and
deemed read a third time and passed, to be transmitted to the
President for assent in accordance with the Acts (Authentication) Act,
and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.
"That the votes and proceedings containing all bills be produced for
adoption, as passed by the House."
Uproar in the chamber
But immediately after the Senate President put the bills to voice vote
where the "ayes" had their way, there was uproar in the chamber as
some senators, especially Senator Domingo Obende, Edo State, and
George Sekibo, Rivers State, opposed the passage of the bills in less
than ten minutes.
Senator Mark's efforts to calm down frayed nerves could not yield any
positive results and he then told the aggrieved Senators, who did not
agree with the passage of the bills, to write their names and
signatures so that it would be looked at again today.
46 bills passed
The 46 bills are: Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Establishment etc)
Act (Amendment), 2015; Office of the Nigerian Financial Ombudsman
Bill; Institute of Chartered Trustees of Nigeria Bill; National
Convicts and Criminal Records (Registry) Bill, 2015; Community Service
Bill; People's Bank of Nigeria Act (Repeal) Bill and Nigerian Bank for
Commerce and Industry Act (Repeal).
Others are National Commission for Rehabilitation Act (Repeal) Bill;
Maintenance Orders Act (Repeal) Bill, 2015; Federal Saving Bank Act
(Repeal) Bill 2015; Loan (State Development) Act (Repeal), 2015;
Nigerians in Diaspora (Establishment) Commission, 2015; Electronic
Transactions Bill, 2015; and Chartered Institute of Statiscians of
Nigeria, 2015.
Also passed are the Nigerian Metallurgical Industry Bill, 2014,
Federal Audit Commission Bill, 2015, National Centre for Agricultural
Mechanisation Act (Amendment,) Bill, Nigerian International Financial
Centre (Establishment, etc) Bill, Investment and Securities
(Amendment) Bill and Nigerian Communications Satellite, Bill, Federal
Capital Territory Education Resources Centre (Establishment) Bill;
Labour Institutions (Establishment); Witness Protection Programme
Bill; Institute of Mediators and Conciliators Bill; Legal Education
Act (Establishment) Bill; National Health Insurance Commission Bill;
National Economic Intelligence Committee (Establishment) Act (Repeal)
Bill.
The rest include Federal College Dental Technology and Therapy Bill,
Federal Capital Territory College of Nursing and Midwifery Bill, Oaths
Act (Amendment) Bill, Federal Capital Territory Hospital Management
Board (Establishment) Bill, Passport (Miscellaneous Provisions)
(Amendment) Bill, Chartered Institute of Management Accounts of
Nigeria.
Read more at Vanguard:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/senate-passes-46-bills-in-10-minutes/
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