Akoh, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, said the benefits associated with assenting to the bill were enormous
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Gowon also expressed optimism that President Muhammad Buhari would sign the passed bill into law at a ceremony
A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Peace Corps, Millicent Umoru-Osakwuaoguwa, said Doguwa gave the assurance during the reconstitution of the State Commands of the outfit for Jigawa, Kano and Katsina States, held in Kano on Thursday
The National Commandant of the corps, Ambassador Dickson Akoh, made the appeal when he received the delegation of the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council at the national headquarters of the corps on Thursday in Abuja.
Ndume made the call in Abuja on Thursday at the Peace Corps of Nigeria Founders’ Day and 22nd anniversary of the corps.
At the award ceremony which held in Abuja on Saturday, the project Coordinator for the platform, Omoboye Adeboye, said the Bill for an Act to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps as passed by both chambers was the most popular and widely endorsed legislative piece in the entire 8th Assembly.
This was even as the Minister read the riot act to youths, including those whom he described as “elements who hijacked the National Youth Council of Nigeria” for personal enrichment, while “truncating the vision and mission of youth agenda in Nigeria”.
The Peace Corps of Nigeria on Tuesday appealed to the Inspector General of Police to obey court orders and unseal its office in Jabi, Abuja.
Akoh also called on stakeholders in security sector to urge the IG-P to obey the rule of law.
He made the call at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.
The trial judge, Justice John Tsoho stopped the trial on Tuesday, on the grounds that the police failed to unseal the Corporate Head Office of the corps as ordered by the court.
Akoh told newsmen on Monday in Abuja that the corps would remain focused and not distracted in spite of the debate on the PCN Bill.
Akoh is asking the court for an indefinite adjournment, pending when the Nigerian Police will obey an earlier order of the court to unseal the headquarters of the corps.
The National Commandant, PCN, Dickson Akoh, made the call at the Board of Trustees and National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja.
Buhari stated the reasons in a letter sent to National Assembly
The Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, Sadiq Bello, was said to have given the assurance through a phone conversation with the National Commandant of PCN, Dickson Akoh in Abuja
The corps in Form 48 on Contempt of Court filed on Wednesday prayed the court to jail Idris to serve as deterrent to others in position of authority
Speaking at the End of Year and Award Ceremony of the Corps, Akoh called on Nigerians to allow Buhari another term to finalise major developmental projects, which he had begun.
T.V.C. Kuku, a prosecuting counsel from the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, told the court on Wednesday that the government was compelled to amend the charge due to new facts that had emerged.
The respondents in the suit are: the Police, Inspector-General of Police, National Security Adviser, Department of State Security, and its Director-General and the Attorney-General of the Federation.
The National Commandant of the Nigerian Peace Corps, Dickson Akoh, was in March detained by the Police.