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Don’t use civil servants as Director of Cooperative Societies, Obasa warns
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By Ebunoluwa Sessou
Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa has warned that a civil servant should not be used as Director of Cooperative Societies in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in the proposed Cooperative Societies Bill 2020.
Obasa who made this warning during the Second Reading of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2020, titled, “A bill for a law to provide for Registration of Cooperative Societies in Lagos State and connected matters”, noted that a technocrat should be used as Director.
Making the warning, he said, “We must take the director away from the ministry. We must look outside for people with cognate experience that will help us achieve the intendments of this law.”