This is after the 2024 National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Bill passed third reading.
The proposal was adopted when the Senate dissolved into a committee of the whole for a clause-by-clause consideration of a report of the Chairman of the Committees on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters and Drugs and Narcotics, NDLEA Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024, Tahir Munguno.
In a review of the penalty provisions of the amendment bill towards strengthening the operations of the agency, a proposed amendment to award a death sentence to drug traffickers rather than just a life sentence, was raised by the Senate Chief Whip and Peter Under clause eleven.
Similarly, the executive bill seeking to prescribe the salaries of the judicial office holders both at the federal and state levels scaled second reading and is expected to nip in the bud, the prolonged stagnation in remuneration to reflect the current socio-economic realities.
After the bill was unanimously embraced, some lawmakers canvassed that in the face of the current economic hardship, salaries/remuneration of Nigerians in other sectors be equally reviewed.
The bill was, thereafter, referred to the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters to report back in four weeks.
