Nigeria: NGO Bill's Repressive, Unfavourable to National Devt, CSOs Insist

12 October 2017

The National Assembly has been urged to ignore and step down the Bill seeking the establishment of a Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) Commission to coordinate, supervise and harmonise the activities of NGOs and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria, otherwise known as the NGO Bill.

The CSOs described the Bill as retrogressive, repressive and unfavourable to national development, adding that it should not be considered by the Legislature and rather left to die. Instead, the groups urged that existing governmental regulatory institutions should be strengthened to perform the role they are already mandated to perform;

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