Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed
six bills that have earlier been passed by the
National Assembly into law.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on
National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang,
disclosed this to State House Correspondents
after the President signed the bills into law at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to Enang, the bills signed into law
include the Compulsory Treatment and Care for
Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017 and Anti-Torture
Act, 2017.

He explained that the Compulsory Treatment
and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017
provided for the compulsory treatment and care
for victims of gunshots and for related matters.

He said, “Specifically, the Act stipulates that a
person with a gunshot wound shall be received for immediate and adequate treatment by any
hospital in Nigeria with or without initial
monetary deposit.

“Furthermore, a person with a gunshot wound shall not be subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment or torture by any person or authority, including the police and other security
agencies.

“Anti-Torture Act, 2017 makes comprehensive provisions for penalising the acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, and prescribes penalties for the
commission of such acts.”

The presidential aide added that Buhari assented to the Niger Delta Development Commission (Establishment) Amendment Act,
2017. He explained that the Act included the gas producing and gas processing companies in the
list of agencies that were contributing to the NDDC in addition to the oil companies in a bid to increasing the funding of the commission for effective discharge of its duties.

“Previously, the NDDC Acts excluded the gas
companies. The Act makes it explicit that the Gas
companies have to be included.

“This is to diversify the sources of funding for the
NDDC for the economic wellbeing of the region,”
he said.

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Is seems as if this accident Yusuf had, has reset Buhari's brain.

If more family accidents will make Buhari sit up, Dear God, pls give him more so that he can better our lots.

Good.