President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the southwest and south-south development commission bills into law.
Gatekeepers News reports that Benjamin Kalu, deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, announced this during plenary on Wednesday.
He said, “No mechanism is too much to trickle down development and dividends of democracy to the grassroots.”
“I am sure that with these development commission, the impact of this administration will be felt by the grassroots.”
“We thank Mr president for completing it to the entire geo-political zones.”
Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday, also confirmed that President Tinubu has signed the South-West Development Commission Bill and South-South Development Commission Bill into law.
“Just to inform distinguished senators that Mr President has assented to the remaining regional development bills, the South-west Development Commission Bill and the South-south Development Commission Bill. We now have all the developmental commissions legally in existence,” Akpabio said.
He thanked Tinubu for his cooperation with the National Assembly and for signing the bills establishing the commissions into law, adding that the commissions would create more jobs for Nigerians and facilitate grassroots development.
