Kwara Breaks Record Bills In Nigeria
OrderPaperToday – The 8th Assembly of the Kwara State House of Assembly has achieved a milestone in bills passage.
This is according to the Speaker, Ali Ahmad who stated that the Kwara State House of Assembly within the last three legislative sessions passed 34 bills, rejected 2 bills while 8 other bills are at various stages of legislative process.
Ahmad gave this indication in Ilorin while addressing members on the resumption of the last legislative session of the current legislature.
He disclosed that the House received 7 private member bills, the highest since the inception of the State House of Assembly in 1979, stressing that 103 motions were also moved and Resolutions adopted on them.
The Speaker noted that the House also worked on numerous motions, matters of urgent and general public importance, public hearings involving experts and professionals which have led to prompt intellectual and robust debates at the floor.
He added that the legislative process adopted the the 8th assembly has given kwarans home and diaspora opportunity to participate in lawmaking and governance in general.
Ahmad also recalled how the legislature’s intervention had resulted in the timely completion of rehabilitation of Ilorin-mokwa road, doused tension occasioned by non – payment of salary to teachers and Local Government Staff especially during the period of recession timely intervention that resulted in reduction of school fees at the State Owned Polytechnic.
He reiterated the commitment of the state legislature to further enhance the upliftment of the people of the state within the last legislative session.
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