Nigeria: National Assembly to pass Financial Intelligence Unit Bill this week – Saraki
Adetokunbo Fakeye
President of the Nigeria Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Sunday, stated that he is confident that the Conference Committee Report on the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (Bill), which has already been passed by both Houses, will be presented by both Chambers this week.
In posts on his social media handles (@BukolaSaraki), the Senate President said:
“Following my meeting on Thursday with the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara; the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption & Financial Crimes, Senator Chukwuka Utazi; and the House of Representatives Chairman on Financial Crimes, Hon. Kayode Oladele, the Conference Committee meeting for the NFIU Bill will hold tomorrow and the Report will be presented in both Chambers on Tuesday.
“I am confident that we will pass the NFIU Bill this week”, he wrote.
Meanwhile, the Senate President, Dr. Saraki, Sunday evening, departed Abuja, Nigeria to Accra, Ghana aboard an Arik Air commercial flight.
Saraki, who is the Chairman of the Nigerian National Assembly, has been invited by the Speaker of Ghana’s parliament, Rt. Hon. Prof. Aaron Mike Ocquaye, to address the parliament on the commemoration of the country’s parliaments celebration of 25 years of uninterrupted parliamentary democracy.
Recall that on Wednesday, the President of the Senate, read a letter from the Ghanaian Speaker on the floor of the Senate, wherein the Speaker stated that his country’s parliament was planning a symposium to commemorate the occasion, and he was inviting Saraki it speak on “The Future of Good Governance in Africa.”
