Ogun State House of Assembly has passed the State Power Sector Law 2024, towards addressing the energy consumption challenge confronting the people and business owners in the state for improved electricity generation, transmission and distribution.
The passage of the Bill followed a presentation of the report of the Whole by the Deputy Speaker, Bolanle Ajayi, who also moved the motion for its adoption, seconded by the Minority Leader, Lukman Adeleye and supported by other members through a voice vote, during a Plenary presided over by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Oludaisi Elemide, at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
The Bill was later read and adopted clause-by-clause before the Committee of Whole, after which the motion for its third reading was moved by the Majority Leader, Yusuf Sheriff, seconded by Hon. Adeleye and supported by the Whole House through a unanimous voice vote.
Thereafter, Clerk of the Assembly, Sakiru Adebakin, took the third reading of the Bill before the lawmakers, following which the Speaker directed that a clean copy of the Bill be transmitted to the state Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun for his assent.
In another development, the Assembly has considered the report of the Committee on Lands and Housing on a petition from Ifedapo Community Development Association (CDA), on behalf of Olorungbemileke CDA in Oke-Ela and Akede Isale Osoba, Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area, written against Phillip Otegbeye Family in Ilaro, in respect of an expanse of land in Oke-Ela.
According to the Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Damilola Soneye, who rendered the committee report, the Assembly recommended that, “all occupants within Philip Otegbeye family land should pay a sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N350,000.00), as ratification fee on a plot of land, including developed and undeveloped land, to the family of Philip Otegbeye, as agreed by both parties through the intervention of Olu of Ilaro and Paramount of Yewaland, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, on Friday, 22nd March, 2024”
Jamiu Lawal,
Head Information Unit, OGHA
