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Enugu Assembly passes 23 bills into law

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AT THE close of second sessionof the sixth Assembly on Tuesday, leadership of Enugu State House of Assembly disclosed that it passed 23 out of 30 bills brought on the floor of the House into law.

The House in the same period received and passed 35 resolutions and motions. Speaker of the House, Hon. Edward Uchenna Ubosi, who made the disclosure in a valedictory speech to mark the end of the second session of the sixth Assembly which was first inaugurated on June 8, 2015, said that they had made tremendous achievements.

“During the sessions, we made litany of achievements among which are 30 bill (22 executive bills and 8 member bills) out of which 23 bills were passed into law and 4 bills at various legislative stages while “the remaining bills are likely to be loved to death,” Ubosi disclosed.

The speaker explained that some of the bills passed into law that had high impact on the citizens of the state included, among others, the Investment and Human Development Authority Law, 2015; Private Partnership Law, 2016; the Land Use Charge Law, 2016; the Enugu State Registered Bonds Law, 2016; the Child Rights Law, 2016 and the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2017.

He also explained that the 35 motions and resolutions passed were timely and in quick response to the yearnings of the people of the state. Ubosi used the opportunity to commend his colleagues for carrying out their oversight Functions religiously with their various standing committees, pointing out that the house committees engaged in regular monitoring of the activities of the various MDAs to ensure that “government programmes were implemented and administered efficiently, effectively and in a manner consistent with legislative intent, practice and procedure.”

Members, who spoke on the successful end of the second session, said the House was able to perform because of the quality leadership of the House under speaker, and passed vote of confidence on him and other principal leaders of the House. Hon. Joseph Agbo Ugwumba representing Enugu East Rural

said that the bane of the country was bad leadership and described Ubosi as a good coach that led a good team to victory. Member representing Nsukka East, Hon. Chinedu Nwamba in supporting the vote of confidence passed on speaker, said that Enugu Assembly was ranked the best in the country because of the able leadership of the House by Ubosi, whom he said was open and receptive.

In another development, the House approved the appointment of Okoro Livinus Ugwu as the new Auditor General of Enugu State, following a letter to the House from the governor, Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, through the Secretary to the State Government, Elder Gabriel Ajah.

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