President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate, seeking to legalise and institutionalise the Social Investment Programme in Nigeria NSIP.
This is one of the requests forwarded to the Senate on Tuesday through different letters read by the President of the Nigerian Senate Ahmad Lawan.
President Buhari on the Social Investment Programme requested the senate to consider and approve an executive bill to establish the programme.
He explained in the letter which was read by the President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan, that consideration and passage of the bill would provide the enabling law for effective implementation of the programme geared towards poverty alleviation of vulnerable Nigerians.
On the National Parks, President Buhari in another letter seeks for concurrence of the Senate to National Park Declaration Order made early in the year for the establishment of 10 New National Parks across the country.
President Buhari in two other separate requests seeks consideration and passage of the National Library Establishment Bill 2022.
The proposed law according to him would provide the legal framework for the maintenance of the National Library of Nigeria in line with global practices.
Another request of President Buhari to the federal lawmakers dwells on the consideration and passage of an executive bill on the Federal Produce Inspection Service.
Dominica Nwabufo
