{"id":917898,"date":"2022-01-20T07:50:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T07:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/buhari-begs-national-assembly-to-pass-anti-loot-whistleblower-witness-bills\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T07:50:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T07:50:52","slug":"buhari-begs-national-assembly-to-pass-anti-loot-whistleblower-witness-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/buhari-begs-national-assembly-to-pass-anti-loot-whistleblower-witness-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Begs National Assembly To Pass Anti-Loot, Whistleblower, Witness Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly to request that three bills \u2013 the Proceeds of Crime Bill, the Whistle Blower Bill, and the Witness Protection Bill \u2013 be passed as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate, and Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House of Representatives, read Buhari\u2019s letter in plenary on Wednesday in their respective chambers.<\/p>\n

The President wrote, \u201cI write to inform you that the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria participated in the 9th Session of the Conference of State Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption held from December 13 to 17, 2021, at the International Conference Centre in Egypt.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the session, the international community expressed appreciation for Nigeria\u2019s efforts in the fight against corruption; reaffirming Nigeria\u2019s rating as a leader in Africa in the areas of developing structures for recovery, repatriation and disposal of proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the light of this, and the need to continue to increase Nigeria\u2019s global profile, I hereby request that the National Assembly kindly consider and eventually pass the best possible version of the following bills: the Proceeds of Crime Bill, the Whistle Blower Bill and the Witness Protection Bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhilst anticipating the House of Representatives\u2019 expeditious consideration of these submissions, please accept, Honourable Speaker, the assurances of my highest consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly to request that three bills \u2013 the Proceeds of Crime Bill, the Whistle Blower Bill, and the Witness Protection Bill \u2013 be passed as soon as possible. Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate, and Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House of Representatives, read Buhari\u2019s letter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}