September 26, (THEWILL) – On Thursday, the Nigerian Senate passed the South West Development Commission Establishment Bill 2024.
The bill passed a third reading at plenary on Thursday, after the consideration of a report submitted to that effect by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Special Duties, Senator Kaka Shehu Lawan.
Senator Kaka in his presentation of the report for the establishment of the South West Development Commission, said the intentions and purposes of the bill are well structured for the socio-economic development of the South West.
“If the Commission is established through presidential assent to the bill, it will, like other development-driven commissions established on a zonal basis, receive funds from the federation account, donations from development partners etc, to address infrastructural deficits and tackle ecological problems in the region”, he said.
The Senate accordingly moved into a committee of the whole for clause-by-clause consideration of the bill after which it was read for the third time.
In his remarks after the passage of the bill, Senate Deputy President, Barau Jibrin who presided over the session, commended Senator Kaka-led committee for a job well done.
According to him, the South West Development Commission like other ones, recently established, will address the infrastructural and ecological challenges in the South West.
“The essence of the various development commissions being set up is to fast track development of the entire country. President Bola Tinubu has assented to similar bills passed for zonal development-driven interventions and will surely assent to this one”, he said.
