Ade Adesomoju, Leke Baiyewu and Olaleye Aluko
An executive bill sent to the Senate seeking to concentrate the control of water resources in the hands of the Federal Government has divided senators across regional lines.
While northern senators support the bill and its objectives, their southern counterparts are opposed to it.
Those opposed to it pointed out that the bill, if passed into law, would further centralise power and the nation’s resources. This, they pointed out, would counter the current move towards devolution of powers, which is currently skewed in favour of the Federal Government.
President Muhammadu Buhari had sent the bill to the legislature in 2017, while the Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, presented the bill as it is customary for executive bills.
It is ‘A Bill for An Act to Establish a Regulatory Framework for the Water Resources Sector in Nigeria,…
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