The National Commandant of the Nigerian Peace Corps, Dr Dickson Akoh, on Thursday, expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari would do justice to the newly passed NPC Bill by the National Assembly by assenting it, for prompt implementation.
“The greatest challenge in this country today is unemployment. So, I am optimism that the President would do justice to the bill”, Akoh said.
Akoh, who was addressing the joint Press Corps of both Chambers of the National Assembly, following the consolidation of the NPC Bill by the Conference Committee, said ” the Nigerian Peace Corps Bill is now ripe and ready to be transmitted to Mr President for his assent”.
The Peace Corps boss also stressed that the harmonised Bill has finally put to rest all the needless controversies bordering on which organisation’s bill was passed by the National Assembly, adding that the clause which suggested the sister formation, National Unity and Peace Corps was outrightly rejected.
Akoh, however, dismissed insinuations in some quarters that the new agency is a duplication of other para-military agencies; saying “no uniformed body today in Nigeria does the jobs we are meant to do.”
The Commandant also made clarifications on the N40,000 payment for the recruitment exercise, adding that the funds were meant for training and kits for the recruits.
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