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Reps seek legal backing for Buhari’s Social Investment Programmes
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By Tordue Salem
The House of Representatives has consolidated two bills, to provide for a legal framework for Social Investment Programmes of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The Bills, as consolidated, also seek to establish social investment consolidation office at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Bills listed for consolidation, are: “A Bill for an Act to Provide a Legal Framework for Establishment of National Social Investment Programmes for the Assistance and Empowerment of Poor and Vulnerable in Nigeria; and to Establish the National Social Investment Programmes Coordination Office within the Federal Ministry Responsible for Social Development to Manage the Implementation of the Programmes; and for Related Matters (HB. 1153), sponsored by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris and 9 Others.
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Hisbah personnel
By Charly Agwam – Bauchi
The Bauchi State Shariah Commission has disclosed plans to repatriate non-indigenous prostitutes in the state back to their states of origin while it will marry off indigenous prostitutes to tackle immorality in the State.
The Permanent Commissioner of the Commission in charge of ‘Hisbah’ (Islamic police), Aminu Balarabe Isah, told journalists on Tuesday that the Commission is concerned about the activities of commercial sex workers in the State.
He said this during a pre-Ramadan sensitization meeting organized by his office for prostitutes at their settlement in the Bayan Gari area of Bauchi metropolis.
He said instead of arresting and punishing them, the Commission in collaboration with the Ministry of Religious Affairs would return non-indigenous prostitutes willing to stop prostitution to their respective states and reunite them with their parents, while the indigenous prostitutes will be married away to their future husbands.
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