Lagos — Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Chibudom Nwuche, yesterday commended House of Representatives for its recent passage of the Local Content Bill and urged the Senate to speedily conclude deliberations on the Bill and also ensure its passage for it to be signed into law by the executive.
Speaking with newsmen in Lagos, Nwuche, who sponsored the Local Content Bill in the first Parliament of the Fourth Republic (1999 to 2003), recalled that the Bill had earlier been passed by the House of Representatives during his tenure as Deputy Speaker, and expressed regrets that since it was not signed into law by the erstwhile executive, it has to undergo another painstaking cycle of legislative process before executive assent could be sought for it.
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