Lawmakers in the Ogun State House of Assembly have conducted concurrent voting on the 44 bills transmitted to the State legislature by the National Assembly.
Some of the bills included ones providing financial independence for State Houses of Assembly, State Judiciary, Local Government and others authorizing the name change for Egbado North and South Local Government Areas.
Other bills approved by the lawmakers included a bill to establish Local Government as a tier of government and guarantee their democratic existence, and tenure; a bill to compel persons to obey or comply with Legislative Summons and that which sought the establishment of the State Security Council was also passed.
Also, the lawmakers supported the passage of a bill to provide for independent candidacy in Presidential, Governorship, National Assembly, State Houses of Assembly, and Local Government Councils Elections.
The approval followed the adoption of the report of the Committee of the Whole House Chaired by the Speaker, Mr Olakunle Oluomo, and presented by his Deputy, Mr Akeem Balogun.
Ogun State House of Assembly had held a stakeholders forum, in which contributors unanimously agreed that all the 44 proposed Bill alterations considered should be given accelerated concurrence by the House and transmitted to the National Assembly for onward transmission to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent.
Oluwatoyin Adegoke
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