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The Senate, on Wednesday, amended the National Health Insurance Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2021.

The legislation was passed by the National Assembly in April last year.

The red chamber at plenary considered a motion for the recommittal of some clauses.

The Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North), sponsored the motion for the re-committal.

The Deputy Leader, Ajayi Boroffice, read the lead debate on behalf of the Senate Leader.

He recalled that the National Assembly transmitted the passed bill to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for assent on April 23, 2020.

He observed that the President, after critical examination of the bill, raised some fundamental issues, which according to him, required fresh legislative action to clauses 20, 24(2) and 25(2)(c).