The Presidency has restated that the chief invoice on water assets earlier than the National Assembly is to not take over the possession and management of the assets from the states.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Eg, in a assertion issued in Abuja on Friday, mentioned the aim of the invoice had been misinterpreted by Nigerians.
He mentioned, “Upon submission of the National Water Resources Bill to the National Assembly by Mr. President on April 11, 2017, there have been a number of misrepresentations and certainly divisive feedback by some individuals on the content material and intent of the invoice, thus the necessity to supply these insights into the content material, intent and coverage route of the chief invoice.
“The bill is intent on consolidating some or all the laws on the water resources sector into one body of laws, whereby when you pick up the Water Resources Act (as it may come to be), you will find therein all the laws hitherto existing as different laws in different volumes of the laws of the federation in the one instrument.”
As acknowledged by Eg, the legal guidelines to be harmonised by the laws embody the Waters Act, Nigeria Hydrological Agency Act, National Water Institute Act and the River Basin Development Authorities Act, amongst others.
These legal guidelines, he mentioned, have been made at completely different occasions regulating completely different facets of water assets sector and contained in several volumes and chapters of the legal guidelines of the federation.
“This bill brings into one body of consolidated, harmonised and updated body of laws all these laws into one instrument,” he famous.