From Kayode Abdulazeez, Ilorin
Kwara State House Of Assembly has confirmed passage of 34 bills in three years of their resumption to legislative duties and also adopted resolutions on 103 motions moved on the floor of the House.
The legislature as well turned down two bills while 8 other bills are at various stages of legislative process within the period under review.
The Eight Assembly which headed by, Honourable Ali Ahmad, disclosed this while addressing members on the resumption of the last legislative session of the current legislature.
Ahmad said the House also received seven private member bills, the highest since the inception of the State House of Assembly in 1979.
He explained that legislative bills, motions, matters of urgent and general public importance, public hearings involving experts and professionals had led to prompt intellectual and robust debates at the floor, pointing out that Kwarans home and diaspora had participated in lawmaking and governance in general.
The Speaker 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 and the timely intervention that resulted in reduction of school fees at the State Owned Polytechnic.
He, however, assured that the legislature, in the last legislative session, would demonstrate more zeal and dedication to further enhance the upliftment of the people of the state.
Speaker applauded the principal officers and staff of the House, the media, the All Progressives Congress in the state and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, the Senate President Bukola Saraki for ensuring an indivisible APC in the state.
In another development, the House has deferred further deliberation on the report of the Ad- Hoc Committee on illegal mining activities in the state, presented by its chairman and House Leader, Hon. Hassan Oyeleke, at plenary.
