The bill was passed on Wednesday and it was sponsored by Ibrahim Shekarau, senator representing Kano central.
The legislation passed third reading after the upper legislative chamber considered clauses of the bill. While leading the debate on it, Shekarau said the legislation, when it becomes law, would provide healthcare to citizens.
“The proposed social security commission under this bill shall provide indigent Nigerian citizens with comprehensive preventive and/or curative medicare from sicknesses resulting from any morbid condition of whatever cause. “Specifically, the commission when established by the leave of this senate shall provide well-structured, impactful, and sustainable social interventions to eligible unemployed Nigerians, old-aged Nigerians, underage children below 18 years resulting from broken marriages and survivors resulting from loss of family’s breadwinner.”
NGRSenate The National Assembly should expand any Social Security Bill to encompass unemployment benefits and care for the elderly.
NGRSenate They'll soon ask us to go and register for social security number (SSN) even with our NIN & BVN