{"id":17213,"date":"2024-02-14T22:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/commuters-right-bill-passes-first-reading-at-reps\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:02:34","slug":"commuters-right-bill-passes-first-reading-at-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/commuters-right-bill-passes-first-reading-at-reps\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuters\u2019 right bill passes first reading at Reps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A bill for an act to provide for a law to protect commuters rights on Wednesday, scaled first reading at the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>This resolution followed the presentation of the general principles of the bill by the sponsor, Rep. Abdullahi Halims, the Deputy House Leader at plenary.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is titled, \u201cAn Act to provide a framework for the promotion, protection, provision of safety, and enforcement of the rights and obligations of commercial commuters in Nigeria and for other related matters, 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While presenting the bill, Halims said that its objectives were to ensure that the safety, comfort, and rights of commuters were prioritized.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the bill sought to ensure that commuters\u2019s rights and dignity were promoted and protected, stressing that it would ensure a national passenger protection plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will include insurance coverage for road, rail, and water transport,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that the bill would ensure that commercial transporters provide insurance coverage for their passengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will come through a subscription to premium insurance coverage that could facilitate making claims under the National Passengers Protection Plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI once again solicit your support to allow the bill to be read a second time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Commuters\u2019 right bill passes first reading at Reps<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill for an act to provide for a law to protect commuters rights on Wednesday, scaled first reading at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1768],"tags":[180,1255],"class_list":["post-17213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reps","tag-news","tag-reps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}