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Group: We’ll sue NASS over proposed water bill
Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports
Indigenous People in Nigeria, a social-cultural group, has threatened to sue the National Assembly if the proposed National Water Resources Bill is passed.
The group stated after a colloquium hosted by the Malcolm Omirhobo Foundation in Lagos that if the National Water Resources Bill is passed into law, it will give the Federal Government exclusive dominance and control over waterways, further impoverishing Nigerians in riverine states that rely on waterways to generate revenue internally.
Malcolm Omirhobo, speaking on behalf of the group, stated, “For Nigeria to progress, its government must be courageous enough to restructure the country by encouraging the establishment of state police and the reversion of the country from unitarism to true fiscal federalism without further delay as it was in 1963. Every state must be allowed to manage its natural resources and pay tax to the Federal Government.”
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