President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to receive the recently-passed Petroleum Industry Governance Bill.

The bill, which seeks to provide for the governance and institutional framework for the petroleum industry was passed by the National Assembly on March 28.  The chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources, Omotayo Alasoadura had earlier stated that the PIGB would be presented to Buhari on March 30, but the Presidency is yet to receive its copy. “Further to several enquiries by the media, interest groups, and the public in respect of within named bill, may I please state that the said bill has not yet been transmitted by the National Assembly to the President,” said Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters.

“From my enquiries, the bill is still undergoing standard operating legislative processes of the National Assembly preparatory to transmission, please.” he adds in the statement titled “Re: Petroleum Industry Governance Bill.”

PIGB is the first in a series of long-awaited petroleum industry laws designed to reform the Nigerian oil and gas industry. There have been several failed attempts to pass a law to regulate the country’s petroleum industry, until the Senate had in May 2017 passed the PIGB.

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