The bill is now up for consideration at committee level.
More so, section 308 shields the quartet of the president, the vice president, state governors and their deputies, for their period in office, from all forms of civil and criminal prosecution.to the presiding officers of the National and State Assemblies is being mulled by the House of Representatives.
He said this makes the bill “expedient in order to protect the integrity and independence of the leadership of the superior courts of records at the state and federal levels.”
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