Reps bar journalists from covering public hearing on Infectious diseases Bill

Journalists covering the activities of the House of Representatives, were on Wednesday, denied access to the venue of a public hearing on the controversial Control of Infectious Diseases Bill, organised by the House Committees on Health Services, Health Institutions and Justice.
A Sergent-at-Arm stationed at the entrance of Hearing Room 028, venue of the public hearing, said he has instructions not to allow journalists into the committee room.
According to him, it was only the chairman of the House Committee on Health Services, Tanko Sununu that would clear journalists to cover the event.
Reports also has it that the Clerk of the Committee, Joyce Umeru was also found of holding the Committee events in secrecy and has vowed not to have any business to do with journalists
The Control of Infectious Diseases Bill, which is jointly sponsored by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, the chairman, House Committee on Health Institutions, Paschal Obi and Sununu has been trailed by controversy, amidst allegations that the bill was plagiarized from a similar bill in Singapore.
The bill had generated furore on the floor of the House, last month, after Gbajabiamila attempted to push it through first, second reading and committee consideration within a few hours.

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