Senator Kamina JohnsonSmith sought to assure senators that the NIDS Bill will not be bogged down by bureaucracy, following its safe passage through the Senate on Friday. The Bill, the National Identification and Registration Act, 2021, finally made it through a network of paths and hedges, including a walkout by Opposition MPs that cleared the way for a unanimous Government vote in favour of the original 2017 draft. The original Bill was eventually laid earlier this year, after the JSC reviewed the 2020 Bill and tabled its report in Parliament.
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