Nigeria, Dec. 18 -- The Borno senator, Ali Ndume, has said the establishment of the Nigerian Peace Corps is not only important but necessary.

The lawmaker who addressed journalists on Wednesday, explained his reasons for reintroducing the bill in the Senate.

The bill, Nigerian Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, was one of the six bills that were read for the first time at plenary on Tuesday.

It was passed by the National Assembly in 2017 but President Muhammadu Buhari refused to sign it into law in February 2018.

The bill seeks to turn the Peace Corps, currently a non-governmental organisation, into a government para-military agency.

The law sought to give legal backing to the establishment of Peace Corps as a government parastatal, a...