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Reps pass bill to put railway on concurrent legislative list to second reading
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By Levinus Nwabughiogu
House of Representatives has passed a bill seeking to remove railway from the exclusive legislative list and include it in the concurrent list.
The bill titled “An act to alter the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) to provide that the federal government and the state governments shall have concurrent legislative authority on railway, and to provide for matters related thereto”, scaled through second reading after members debated its general principle at Thursday plenary.
Sponsor of the bill, Hon. Babajimi Benson representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency of Lagos State while leading the debate on the bill said that it shall alter the Second Schedule to the Constitution (as amended), Act (N0 24) 1999.