The Green Chamber has vowed to continue its deliberations on the controversial NGO bill which has been attracting negative reactions across the country.
File Photo
The House of Representatives has vowed to go ahead with the Bill seeking to regulate the activities of Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Society Organizations.
The House made its position known in a statement by the Deputy Majority Leader, Hon. Umar Buba Jibril, on Thursday.
Jibril said in a statement that not even the United Nations, to which some of the NGOs and CSOs have appealed to, can prevail on the National Assembly to stop the process for the passage of the Bill.
He said: “Going on cheap propaganda and blackmail and even calling on World bodies including the United Nations to help you withdraw a bill from our National Assembly will not help you!”
Jibril, however, in the statement, said churches, mosques and thrift societies are not going to be affected by the Bill.