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The House of Representatives has revisited the Climate Change Bill passed by the 8th National Assembly, to which the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), declined assent.

Sponsor of the bill, Sam Onuigbo, who briefed journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, disclosed that the contentious clauses cited by Buhari had been reviewed by a Joint Review Committee sanctioned by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, and made up of the House; Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN); and the Ministry of Environment.

The lawmaker said he was happy that the House considered and adopted the report on the bill on July 6, 2021, while it also on July 8 passed ‘A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Mainstreaming of Climate Change Actions, Establish the National Council on Climate Change; and for Other Related Matters.’

According to him, the bills will now be transmitted to the Senate for concurrence.

Onuigbo partly said, “Nigeria and the rest of the world face a huge existential challenge due to the impacts of climate change such as drought, coastal and gully erosion, health challenges, desertification with the attendant food shortages and forced migration that has led to insecurity, etc.

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“As experts have said, the situation is so bad that if urgent actions are not taken to reduce the volume of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere, the world as we know it will be completely destroyed in a matter of decades due to the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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“It is this awareness of the danger of climate change that motivated me to sponsor the Climate Change Bill in the 8th Assembly. The objective was to ensure that Nigeria has a legal framework that will help coordinate its efforts at climate change mitigation and adaptation. Although the bill was passed by the National Assembly and duly transmitted to the President, he declined assent due to a number of reasons.

“With this clear conviction, I reviewed the bill and re-sponsored it in this Assembly. I called you all together today to brief you on the progress we have made towards ensuring that Nigeria gets a climate change law.”

Meanwhile, the House also on Tuesday passed for second reading, ‘A Bill for an Act to Establish Communal Farms in all 774 Local Government Areas of the Federation to Develop a Sustainable Agro-Allied Business in Nigeria’ which was sponsored by Anthony Afe.

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