Senate Considers Bill to Establish Nigerian Hunters Council

The Senate considered bill seeking to establish the Nigerian Hunters Council of Nigeria during the plenary on Tuesday.

Sponsored by Senator Biodun Olujimi (PDP – Ekiti South), the bill seeks to among other things, provide community policing, maintenance of Law and Order in Communities; and provide synergy with other Security Agencies to ensure peace and security, scaled second reading.

“Mr. President, Distinguished Colleagues, this bill seeks to control and prevent crime from within the community as doing that from outside the community entails recruiting strangers who might not be familiar with crime terrains as well as criminals in the community.

“The bill seeks to enact a law that will legalize the activities of various Hunter groups in Nigeria to provide against the notion that these groups lack the constitutional powers to act and therefore are arrogating such powers to themselves,” Olujimi said.

The Nigerian Hunters Council of Nigeria Bill, after scaling second reading, was referred by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to the Committee on Interior for further legislative inputs.