Members of the House of Representatives clashed on Wednesday, March 22 over a proposed bill to legalize the cultivation, sale, and use of cannabis, for commercial purposes.
Benjamin Kalu and Olumide Osoba, members of the House had launched a fresh bill seeking to amend the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act and expand the scope of the anti-narcotics agency to issue licenses for the cultivation, sale, and use of marijuana.
But when the bill had been up for second reading at the plenary on Wednesday, another House member, Miriam Onuoha, had protested, saying that the content of the proposed bill was the same as hers, which she sponsored long ago.
Femi Gbajabiamila, in his ruling, had thereafter, asked both sides to liaise with Abubakar Fulata, the Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business, so that they could identify the differences and similarities between the bills ahead of their sitting on Thursday.
