‘Under the draft National Water Amendment Bill of 2023 (the Water Bill)’, says the IRR, ‘the government aims to transfer many of the water-use rights vital to commercial agriculture to emergent farmers lacking title to land, working capital, and a host of other vital inputs. The Bill is thus likely to curtail production, push up food prices, and terminate many thousands of farming jobs, even as it brings few gains to new farmers.’
The IRR has petitioned the president not to sign the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill of 2019 (the Bill) into law, but rather to refer it back to the National Assembly for reconsideration.