House of Representatives Kills Bill which Seeks to Make Exclusive Breastfeeding Compulsory

The House of Representatives has suppressed a Bill that sought to make exclusive breastfeeding compulsory to employees in the public and private sectors. If passed, the law would have ensured that all newborn babies are fed on no other thing but chest milk, till a stipulated time.
The exclusive chest feeding bill, entitled “a bill for an Act to make exclusive chest feeding compulsory to employees in the Public and Private sectors for the improvement of the health of new born babies in Nigeria and for related matters (HB 313)”, was sponsored by Honourable Jumoke Okoya-Thomas.
A member of the House, Honourable Kigbu Haruna, in his contribution before the motion was killed, had appealed to his colleagues to support the passage of the bill but another member, Honourable Friday Itulah, kicked against the bill saying that the matter be left to advocacy rather than making it compulsory.
However, when the Speaker, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, put the question for the second reading of the exclusive chest feeding, it was voted against by members.
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