President Bola Tinubu has assented to two bills recently passed by the national assembly.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the presidential
assent during plenary on Wednesday.
“President Bola Tinubu has assented to two new bills. He
assented to the export prohibition repeal and re-enactment bill 2025,” Akpabio
said.
“He has also assented to the African Union Convention for
the Prohibition and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons’ Domestication
and Enforcement Bill 2020–2025.”
The export prohibition repeal and re-enactment bill seeks to
repeal the Export (Prohibition) Act, which restricts the export of staple
products including maize, rice, yam tubers, beans, cassava tubers, and timber.
The original law, enacted in 1989, was designed to
prioritise local consumption of staple foods and safeguard domestic food
security.
However, critics have argued that the legislation is
outdated and has constrained Nigeria’s export potential, particularly in the
agricultural sector.
They contend that the restrictions discourage foreign
investment and limit Nigeria’s ability to maximise its comparative advantage as
a major producer of the affected commodities.
The assent comes against the backdrop of a food crisis,
which, in 2024, led Tinubu to direct “total compliance” with the existing
Export (Prohibition) Act to curb smuggling and protect local supply.
The second bill assented to by the president domesticates
the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally
Displaced Persons, also known as the Kampala Convention.
The convention, adopted by the AU in 2009, provides a legal
framework for preventing displacement, protecting internally displaced persons,
and ensuring durable solutions for their return or reintegration.
Nigeria signed the convention in 2009 but had yet to
domesticate it into national law.
The domestication bill was sponsored by Benjamin Kalu,
deputy speaker of the house of representatives, and passed by the green chamber
before receiving concurrence from the senate.
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