The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has passed into law a bill to provide for witness protection law and other matters connected therewith to kidnapping and banditary.
The bill sponsored by Barrister Mohammed Alkali (APC Lafia North), was to give witness of any criminality boldness, confidence, and protection to testify in court.
The Speaker of the House, Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, announced the passage of the bill into law yesterday in Lafia after Alhaji Tanko Tunga (APC- Awe North), the House’s Majority Leader moved a motion for the passage of the bill into law.
Abdullahi said that the bill if finally assented to by the governor would go a long way in curtailing the rate of crime in the state and the country at large.
According to him, it will also give witnesses the opportunity to present evidence, expose and report to the police and other security agencies without fear of molestation.
He emphasized the benefit of the bill to the enhancement of criminal justice in the state and by extension the country at large.
The speaker, therefore, directed the clerk of the House to produce a clean copy of the bill for the governor’s assent.
Earlier, Tunga while moving the motion for the passage of the bill into law urged his colleagues to support the bill to allow its scale through third reading.
Hon. Danladi Jatau (PDP- Kokona West), the Minority Leader of the House seconded the motion for the bill to pass third reading.
