Gov AbdulRazaq Sends Two Executive Bills To Assembly For Consideration, Passage

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara 

Kwara State House of Assembly has received two Executive Bills from Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq for consideration and passage.

The Bills are Kwara State Education Trust Fund Amendment Bill Twenty Twenty-Three and Environmental Protection Agency Amendment Bill Twenty Twenty-Three.

These were contained in separate messages from Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq addressed to the Speaker, Engineer Yakubu Danlad-Salihu and read during today’s plenary.

Governor Abdulrazaq said Kwara State Education Trust Fund Amendment Bill aimed to amend the Law for more efficient management of the trust fund created by law to streamline membership of the board of trustees and staffing of the trust fund towards achieving cost saving and enhancing efficiency.

The governor noted that the Environmental Protection Agency Amendment Bill Twenty Twenty-Three seeks to amend the principal law to increase the penalties for violation of certain offences created under the law.

He said the bill when passed would increase the penalties for commiting sanitation offences under section Thirty-Four to Fifty of the principal law as culprits would be convicted or tried with maximum fine of Fifty Thousand Naira or six months imprisonment for individuals and One Hundred Thousand Naira fine for corporate bodies

Gov. Abdulrazaq urged the House to accord the two bills the usual prompt consideration and passage. The two bills were read first time by Deputy Clerk of the House, Alhaji Kareem Olayiwola Ahmed during today’s plenary

Speaker, Engineer Yakubu Danlad-Salihu, thereafter, referred the bills to House Committee on Rules and Business to slate the bills for second reading on the next legislative day.

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