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Enugu House steps down debate on Citizens’ Rights Bill

By Emeka Mamah

Enugu—Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly yesterday resumed plenary after a one-month recess and stepped down debate on the Bill for a law to amend the Citizen’s Rights and Mediation Centre Law, Cap. 45.

Leader of the House, Ikechukwu Ezeugwu, who sponsored the bill, asked that the bill be stepped down for deliberation on a later date without giving reasons for his request.

“I move that the bill for a law to amend the Enugu State Citizen’s Rights and Mediation Centre Law Cap. 45 Laws of Enugu State of Nigeria 2004… standing in my name be stepped down for a later date, I so move,” Ezeugwu said.

The request was unanimously approved and the bill was then subsequently stepped down.