A bill that would allow the National Human Rights Commission to get more money on Tuesday was passed by the Senate and is now law.
If the president signs the bill called "National Human Rights Commission Act 2004 (Repeal and Enactment) Bill 2022," the agency will be able to do its job better because it will have more money.
The Senate said that if the Commission gets enough money, it will keep the grade "A" that the United Nations General Assembly gave Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission.
The goal of the bill, as stated in the report by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, is to move the National Human Rights Commission into a new position and make it more efficient.
Senator Bamidele Opeyemi, the chair of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters, said that if the Commission had enough money, it could do a better job of investigating crimes.
Nigeria's grade A status from the United Nations General Assembly will be even more secure if this bill is signed into law. It will show that Nigeria has met all of the Paris principles.
"The bill also makes specific provisions to make sure that the National Human Rights Fund is set up in the National Budget and that there are effective ways to keep people from giving money to the fund.
"If we don't have a strong and long-lasting democracy in Nigeria, we won't be able to have an Independent and uncorruptible human rights Institution that isn't influenced by the government," Opeyemi said.