₦airaland Forum

Converting Lagos Laws Into Local Languages Now Important - Obasa

- Lagos Speaker says every resident already protected by state laws

- Urges more enlightenments of residents on the laws

The Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has emphasised the need to convert the laws of the state into local languages for the benefit of every residents.

Speaking with officials of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, in the evening of Thursday, Obasa said every resident in the state was covered and protected by laws that have been passed by the House of Assembly.

The Speaker noted the need to reproduce the laws in native languages so that it would be easier for everyone to understand how he or she benefits from them.

"We have not left anyone behind in the laws we have passed," the Speaker told the officials who were on a courtesy visit to the House.

"We have the child rights law which mandates every child to go to school. It also bans the idea of using children to hawk on the streets.

"The awareness that domestic violence exists in the state made us pass the Domestic Violence Prohibition Act  to protect women, men and children. There is the Administration of Criminal Justice Law.

"All these we are doing to ensure we are on a sound footing at all times and that our state would not look like a jungle," he added.

Obasa, who said the House was ready to collaborate with any well-meaning individual or organisation for the education of Lagos residents in relation to the laws of the state, added: "We make laws in English, but look at the percentage of the educated people compared to the people who are not lettered."

He urged the NHRC to also partner with other non-governmental organisations with interest in marital and domestic issues for the goal of peaceful co-existence among couples.

This, he said, is because violence and the use of force will never be solutions to domestic challenges faced by couples.

He also said the Assembly would look into the issues relating to alleged ill-treatment of Nigerian workers in some factories located in the state.

Speaking earlier, Mr. Lucas Koyejo, State Coordinator of the NHRC, commended the House is Assembly under Obasa for passing laws that protect the rights of cicitizens.

"Lagos State has been at the forefront of ground-breaking and pace-setting laws that other states and even the federal government have followed and this is what we want to continue.

"Domestic violence-prohibition law is one major law for which the NHRC is proud of the Lagos Assembly and is currently being emulated by other states," he said.

Koyejo urged the House to look into issues of casualisation of staff and inhuman treatment allegedly perpetrated by foreign factory owners on their Nigerian employees.

He further said the NHRC would be happy if the House would always invite its officials to public hearings on bills.

Good one to the Afonjas... This is what our greedy politicians in SS and SE can never propose in the house of assembly. That is why we want to restore Biafra, the land of the rising sun.. So we can write laws in our various local languages and get rid of this nonsense English language that has enslaved the mindsets of almost all Nigerian.

The ones published in English, how many people dey read am??

Oharina:
Good one to the Afonjas... This is what our greedy politicians in SS and SE can never propose in the house of assembly. That is why we want the restore Biafra, the land of the rising sun.. So we can write laws in our various local languages and get rid of this nonsense English language that has enslaved the mindsets of almost all Nigerian.

Wonders will never end, We should get rid of the same English language you are expressing yourself with? I do not think your faculty is in place?, It will be cheaper & more effective to educate the populates in the already established English language. Zombie Obasa, Mumu tribalism, looking for another way to steal money, next month he will approve 12 billion Naira for the translation? Thief.

favor914:
Wonders will never end, We should get rid of the same English language you are expressing yourself with? I do not think your faculty is in place?, It will be cheaper & more effective to educate the populates in the already established English language. Zombie Obasa, Mumu tribalism, looking for another way to steal money, next month he will approve 12 billion Naira for the translation? Thief.

Hmm babe why are you like this na, can't you appreciate good thing when you see it? Now let me ask you, are u proud of English? If yes, that means you need to be taken to a psychiatrist hospital.

We need to write our constitutions and laws in our local ancient languages older than English, French, so they will not go into extintion.

favor914:
Wonders will never end, We should get rid of the same English language you are expressing yourself with? I do not think your faculty is in place?, It will be cheaper & more effective to educate the populates in the already established English language. Zombie Obasa, Mumu tribalism, looking for another way to steal money, next month he will approve 12 billion Naira for the translation? Thief.

Just listen to your damn self .... If laws are meant for people to follow, is it not better it gets translated to local dialect which is Yoruba, what's Tribalistic in this common sense proposal

Africans are becoming something else and it's getting stupid and ridiculous

And as for allegations of Obasa looting ,he had gone to EFCC after Sahara Reporters and some Aboki tried maligning him with cheap allegations and EFCC didn't get a single charge or offense against him



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for me I think translating it in our local language is a welcome idea cause
1) it will also help preserve our language
so each region or state can come up with their own language but the same laws