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March 8, 2021
The Ondo State House of Assembly on Monday held a Public Hearing on a bill for a law to eliminate violence in private and public life.
The bill prohibits all forms of violence against persons and provides for maximum and effective remedies for victims and punishment of offenders and other related matters.
Declaring the public hearing open, Mr Bamidele Oloyelogun, the Speaker of the House, said that the bill was meant to prevent all forms of gender based violence in the state.
Oloyelogun urged the stakeholders at the hearing to submit their memoranda and promised that their views and opinions would be considered.
“There have been rumours in some online and the conventional media that the Speaker has been invited by the EFCC.
“As I often say, this is the only genuine source of information from the House of Assembly. If you get your information from other sources, then it is left to you.
“As at this moment that we are having this press conference, the Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr Bamidele Oloyelogun, has not been invited by the EFCC.
“That is the truth as I am talking to you, ‘’Omole said.
He, however, explained that an aggrieved staff member of the Assembly petitioned the EFCC, which made the agency to invite the concerned staff.
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