The Senate has passed a bill to extend the service of the employees of the National Assembly from 60 to 65 years.
The bill, which had earlier been passed at the House of Representatives, was passed for concurrence by the Senate at plenary, after it was earlier declined concurrence by the senate on Feb 22.
The bill, titled: ”A Bill for an Act to make provision for retirement age of staff of the National Assembly Service and For Other related Matters” was re-presented for concurrence by the Senate Leader, Bamidele Opeyemi.
Opeyemi, in his debate, said corrections had been made on the bill with proper and more extensive inputs in the various clauses.
He said special regards had also been paid to global best practices, including the definition of who a legislative officer is in civilised and more advanced democracies, especially the US and the United Kingdom.
“These countries have adopted the standard we want to adopt, in terms of the need to establish and strengthen institutional memories by ensuring a certain retirement age threshold for legislative officials.”
Opeyemi said he had done a lead debate, and hence, urged the senate to pass the bill for concurrence.