What Peace Corps Commandant, Akoh Said After Buhari Rejected Signing Peace Corps Bill

Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s rejection of the proposed Peace Corps of Nigeria establishment bill, Dickson Akoh, commandant of the Corps has reacted

Speaking while addressing journalists after a house of representatives committee meeting on Tuesday, commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria, Dickson Akoh, said the rejection of the Peace Corps bill shows there is “conspiracy against the Nigerian youth”.

TORI News had reported earlier today that in a letter which speaker of the house of representatives, Yakubu Dogara, read during the plenary session at the National Assembly on Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari rejected the proposed Peace Corps of Nigeria establishment bill, citing security concerns, duplication of roles and lack of funds as his reasons.

In a swift reaction, Akoh accused the nation’s security agencies of working against the bill, adding that the same persons who “fought” the Peace Corps bill prior to its passage advised Buhari against giving assent to the bill.

He said: “The same people that opposed the bill with the same content during the national assembly’s public hearing, took the matter before the president, telling him that instead of voting money for a new establishment, they should use it to boost money for their own activities.

“They had said it is a duplication of their functions but we made an advertorial in some newspapers to show the differences in the functions. Whatever they have done has not brought the situation to an end. The national assembly may still take it up.”

Akoh said the organisation is in the interest of the vast majority of the youth, adding that “from what I am seeing, there is a conspiracy against the youth.”

“Let them (the youth) be jobless and be committing crimes and let these people have more money and jail them. I think that is the conspiracy,” he said.

He also alleged that some persons had sworn that they will do “everything possible” to see that the president does not give assent to the bill.

“We have the tape that immediately after the passage of the bill by the national assembly, it was conspired and sworn to God Almighty to forestall the passage of the bill.

“We have bills that have suffered similar fate and resistance and was later passed. So we have hope that one day, propped attention will be given to the bill,” he said.

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