LAGOS ASSEMBLY PASSES 9 BILLS, 42 RESOLUTIONS

As Lagos State House of Assembly celebrates its first year of 7th Assembly the House has passed nine bills and 42 resolutions with 21 motions.


The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Bolaji Yusuf Ayinla, disclosed this while giving account of his stewardship to his constituents at the village square meeting at Mushin.

According to him, “Part of the bills passed were Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency Law, 2011, Lagos State Public Procurement Law, 2011, Lagos State Tenancy Law, Appropriation (Amendment) Law, Re-Ordering of priorities in 2011 Budget among others.

He said, “I have raised a motion on the floor of the House urging it to pass a resolution to give a helping hand to Mushin Local Government Council saddled with the responsibility of ensuring the security of lives and property of the people.

“This motion has since been adopted and passed as a resolution of the House.”

The lawmaker stressed that the House had passed bills that would ensure the safety of lives of the people in Lagos and its environs.

Meanwhile, the lawmaker, who used the opportunity to unveil his quarterly in-house journal, The Ambassadors, told his constituents that he had ensured the employment of some of the people of the constituency into the civil service and empowered some others to be financially independent.

Highlighting other dividends of democracy he had brought to his Constituency, Ayinla said that there was an on-going construction of portable water borehole projects in all the 10 wards of the Constituency some of which he would commission by next week.

Meanwhile, the National Legal Adviser of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Muiz Banire has urged politicians in the country to ensure effective representation of their people while calling on the electorates to always demand accountability from their representatives.

By Ugochukwu Eke, Umuahia 17/06/2012 00:00:00
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THIRTEEN bills have been passed into laws by the 5th Abia House of Assembly in its first year.

The Speaker, Ude Oko-chukwu, told newsmen yesterday that the Assembly received 24 bills, 13 bills of which have been passed into law.
He disclosed that the outstanding 11 are at various stages of legislative considerations.

Oko-chukwu, who said the House also entertained and passed 8 motions and 61 resolutions on topical issues affecting the lives of the residents, attributed the success recorded by the legislative arm to the support, diligence and transparent deliberations adopted by his colleagues.

The Speaker explained: “The peaceful way we have been conducting our affairs have made some people in the state to think that we have not been working, simply because they have not been hearing or seeing us quarrel and no scandal to arouse their political interest.

“The maturity, liberal outlook, consistency, tenacity, consensus building skills and collective cooperative encouragement of members no doubt constituted the bench mark for nurturing the House and strengthening it to discharge its constitutional responsibilities as a legislative arm of government”.

He added that the Assembly has embarked on construction of a new 34- room storey building office complex to ease the challenge of office accommodation facing members.

The Speaker said that the House has started the re-roofing of the Assembly complex, which houses the chambers, offices of the speaker, his deputy and the clerk, stressing that the building will have a new look and reduce constant renovations.
The Nation