Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives Buba Jibril says the house will pass the 2010 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) Regulation and Co-ordination Bill to forestall illegal activities of some of the organisations.
Jibril (Kogi-APC) who said this in a statement he issued to newsmen in Abuja on Friday explained that religious organisations and quasi financial institutions were not affected by the bill because they were not NGOs. “Churches, mosques, esusu and market women associations are not affected by the bill.
“The NGOs bill is primarily to set up a commission to regulate their activities and provide a platform for robust relationships between them and the government for the interest of Nigerians.
Recent developments have shown that some people registered NGOs to solicit funds for selfish motives.
Also, recently, in the north eastern part of the country, some NGOs were reported to have funded the activities of insurgents,” he alleged.
The NGO Regulation Bill, which was sponsored by the Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Umar Buba Jibril, is calling for the setting up of yet another Federal agency to be known as the NGO Regulatory Commission, which will have an Executive Secretary and a 17-member Governing Board to be appointed by the President for a five-year tenure.
According to him, the bill is to ensure transparency and accountability in the ways NGOs collect money and use it.
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