Chidi Samuel || The House of Representatives on Wednesday said it will override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the recently rejected Peace Corps Bill.
Abdulrazak Namdas, the spokesperson for the House of Representatives made the disclosure while briefing National Assembly Correspondents.
This means the House will exercise its power to make a passed bill to become a law, without the assent of the president.
But for the move by the house to be effective, the Senate will also have to override the President’s veto.
According to Namdas, the House will, in addition, commence the process of overriding the president’s veto on nine other bills.
The bills are: A Bill for an Act to establish the Chartered Institute of Treasury Management; A Bill for an Act to establish the Nigerian Council for Social Works; and A Bill for an Act to amend the currency conversion, freezing orders act to give discretionary powers to the judge of high court to order for forfeiture of assets of affected persons, and a bill for an act to establish the police procurement fund.
Others are, A Bill for an Act to amend the environmental health officers council registration Act; A Bill for an Act to establish the Chartered Institute of Loan and Risk Management of Nigeria; A Bill for an Act to establish the Chartered Institute of Public Management of Nigeria; A Bill for an Act to establish the Chartered Institute of Exports and Community Brokers of Nigeria; and A Bill for an Act to establish the Federal University, Wukari.
The National Assembly is empowered by Section 58(5) of the 1999 Constitution to override the president’s veto on Bills.
To do this, however, the house requires 240 members to make up its two-thirds, while the 109-member Senate requires 73 members to veto the president’s assent.