The bill which seeks to create a federal government intervention agency for the North Central region, the North Central Development Commission (NCDC) has been passed into law.

Checks revealed that the Bill sponsored by Senate Minority Leader, Comrade Abba Patrick Moro and the other senators from North Central Nigeria passed the first and second reading in the ninth senate but could not secure presidential assent.

The passage of the bill followed the adoption of the report of the Senate Committee on Special Duties submitted during plenary.

Senator Moro had argued in his lead debate that the Commission, when established would be saddled with the responsibility of receiving and managing funds from the federal government and donors for the resettlement, rehabilitation, integration and reconstruction of roads, houses and business premises of victims of flood and farmers/herders clashes, communal clashes, construction of large format drainage systems, dredging of rivers Niger and Benue to control flood and incidental matters, as well as tackling the menace of poverty, illiteracy and other related environmental or developmental challenges facing the North Central Nigeria.

Senator representing Kano North and Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, who presided over the plenary congratulated Senator Moro and all those who contributed to the success of the bill. He expressed optimism that President Tinubu would assent to the bill for the overall development of North Central Nigeria, which comprises Kogi, Niger, Benue, Kwara, Plateau, Nasarawa and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.