AKWA IBOM HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PASSES 29 BILLS IN THREE YEARS

The Speaker of the Akwa-Ibom House of Assembly had said that a total of 29 Bills and 120 resolutions were passed between 2015 – 2018 legislative calendars.

The House, Barr Onofiok Luke, who disclosed this on Wednesday, while addressing members at the closing sitting of the 3rd Legislative Year, said the different committees of the house also conducted 30 public hearings during the period..

The breakdown, the Speaker said, include 15 private member bills out of 41 presented, and 14 executive bills. About 37 others, he said, were at different legislative stages towards their passages.

“In the last 3 years for instance, standing and ad hoc committees of this honourable house have conducted at least 30 public hearings on private member and executive bills, the highest so far in the history of the assembly,” he said.

These events, Luke said, had attracted informed inputs into the bills, and centred the laws around the actual needs of the people, while meeting the long term development goals of the state, as well as the short term ambitions of government.

Narrating their achievements, Luke said, “we have passed bills to fast-track economic development and to diffuse the dividends of democracy directly to the masses. We have passed bills to strengthen local government administration in the state; bills to hasten the dispensation of justice; bills to fortify the state’s education system particularly at the tertiary level; bills to boost the revenue base of Akwa Ibom

“Bills to meet the social, health, and infrastructural needs of the people, environmental protection laws and only recently, we passed into law the bill to create and regulate job opportunities for Akwa Ibom people in corporate organizations in the state. Today, we have passed into law the Akwa Ibom State Violence Against Persons Prohibition Bill 2018.

“With 35 motions and more than 120 house resolutions standing to the credit of the current assembly, this house has been steadily making interventions and defending the interest of Akwa Ibom people. We have held public hearings and openly treated petitions to the house by our constituents; we have engaged in rigorous oversight tasks with the view to oiling the wheels of government for optimal performance.

“In recognition of security as a defining pillar in the development dynamics of every society, this House during this legislative year played key interventionist role to ensure the safety of lives and property in some crises areas of the state. We are for instance putting plans in place to organise the first ever legislative-security summit by this house to brace up the state’s security architecture. We are already in talks with partner security agencies in this regard.”

The Speaker who commended the commitment of members, also reminded them of the task awaiting them in the remaining 11 months, which would be critical to the success of the current administration and the take off of a new one.

“We must be ready to engage in productive partnership with institutions in order to consolidate fully on our 3–year achievements. This relationship will prove even more useful as they will help the next assembly hit the ground running. Also, we must consolidate our efforts in the key mandate area of lawmaking. There is need for the solidification of existing sound policies of government.

“We will be giving legislative leverage to provably productive policies of the current administration. This will no doubt improve the functionality of those policies when they are put into full throttle in the second term of the administration. Policies within agriculture, manufacturing, as well as trade and investment subsectors will be considered for sustenance through the instrumentality of the law,” Luke concluded.

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