Kwara Assembly Passes 10 Bills Into Law, 80 Resolutions in 18 Months.

By Bisi Adedayo, Ilorin

The Kwara State House of Assembly under the leadership Speaker, Ali Ahmad has passed 10 Bills into law, since inception of the 8 legislature.

Chairman, House Committee on Information,  Social development, Tourism , Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Saheed Popoola dropped this hint weekend in Ilorin, at a weekly media interactive session on the
activities of the legislature.

Popoola also disclosed that another eight Bills are now on the verge of final passage, as they had passed through second reading while two other bills have just passed through first reading.

The Bills that have been passed into law according to him, include the State Revenue Administration (Amendment) Bill, 2016, Secret Cult and Secret Societies in Kwara State (Prohibition) Bill 2016, State Revenue Court (Amendment) Bill 2016, 2016 Appropriation Bill, State Compulsory, free Universal Basic Education (Amendment) Bill 2016, the Chiefs (Appointment and Disposition ) Bill 2016, State Land Charge Court (Amendment) Bill 2016, Local Government (Miscellaneous Provision) Amendment Bill and Abubakar Shola Saraki( Amendment) Bill 2016.

The Chairman of the House Committee on Information further disclosed that another eight bills  had passed through second reading at the floor of the House.

They were the State Waste Management Agency Bill, Bill for a law on Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Bill, 2015, State Health Insurance Agency and Health Insurance Scheme 2016, State Teaching Service Commission (Amendment) Bill 2016 and People with Disabilities
Bill 2016.

He said that the  legislature under the present leadership for the first time since the enthronement of democracy, initiated two private bills that had passed through second reading, assuring that the House
would not relent in providing a platform for people oriented governance in the State, to further make democracy more meaningful to average Nigerians.

In his own contribution, a member of the Committee, Hon. Adebayo Muhammed disclosed that the House had passed greater number of resolutions that had impacted positively on the people of the State,
adding that the House would not relent in responding promptly to the yearnings of the people of the State.

Another member of the Committee, Hon. Victoria Bunmi Afolayan aid constitutionally, the legislature was supposed to sit for 181 days in a year, stressing that in the first session, the House sat for 243 days and had sat for 93 days in the second session which she said was just in the mid way.

She assured that the House would continue to take its legislative duty with all seriousness to further enhance good governance in the State while commending the House leadership for creating enabling
environment for members to demonstrate their vibrancy which had made the legislature to become a reference point in the country.