The president had on Tuesday transmitted to the national
assembly that he was withholding assent on the Nigerian Peace Corps
Establishment Bill for lack of funds and duplication of duties of existing
security agencies.
Senator Sani, Senator of Federal Republic of Nigeria
and a Civil Rights Activist ( Kaduna Central District) on behalf of National
Assembly organized an opinion poll on twitter at about 10pm to 2am this
morning. The poll was tagged “SHOULD PEACE CORPS BILL BE SIGNED?
Millions of Nigerians voted in favour of Nigeria Peace Corps.
During the voting Jacob Ayodeji after voting also made a comment that” This
bill is not a personal bill but it was tagged “MASSES BILL” YOUTH BILL” and
especially at this time when a lot of insecurity is happening here and there,
remember water that float a boat can still make it sink”.
Senator Sani announces the poll on his twitter page in
favoured of Nigeria Peace Corps. Those that voted YES had 71% and those that
voted NO had 29% respectively.
Senator Sani now called on Mr. president to rescind
his decision and sign the Peace Corps Bill. The organization should be assigned
to protect schools against gun men and kidnappers.
During council of Commandants and Board of Trustee of the Peace
Corps of Nigeria on Friday the National Commandant on press briefing in Abuja said
there was no security agency in Nigeria that was currently undertaking the
functions ascribe to Peace Corps in the said bill.
The function of Nigerian peace corps as succinctly captured
in the bill do not in any way conflict with that of the function of any
existing security agencies but is absolutely civil, which is to observe as an
arbiter of peace, youth volunteerism, maintaining and sustaining a level of pro-activeness
and courier of information for impending nefarious activities and plots that
can lead to breakdown of peace and order anywhere in Nigeria, National Commandant,
Amb. (Dr) Dickson Akoh said.
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