Oyo lawmakers recount encounters with kidnappers, herders, hoodlums Oyo lawmakers recount encounters with kidnappers, herders, hoodlums
• Ask Makinde to constitute open grazing prohibition task force, tackle insecurity
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Several lawmakers of the Oyo State house of Assembly, on Tuesday, recounted encounters with hoodlums, kidnappers, herders across the state, urging Governor Seyi Makinde, to urgently assent and see to the implementation of the state’s Open rearing and grazing regulation law, 2019.
The lawmakers decried an increase in killings, kidnappings, herders invasion of farms, crime and criminality in the state while contributing to a motion co-sponsored by Honourable Babajide Adebayo of Ibadan North II constituency and Honourable Tunde Isiaka of Oyo East/West constituency titled: “Stemming the Spike of Insecurity, Killings and Kidnappings in the state,” on Tuesday’s plenary.
Drama over multi-campus as Oyo Assembly passes LAUTECH bill Drama over multi-campus as Oyo Assembly passes LAUTECH bill
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Bill to affirm the sole management of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, by the Oyo State government, was passed by the Oyo State Assembly on Monday.
There was however a robust session on the multi-campus provision of the bill during consideration of the report on the bill presented by the House Committee on Education, Science and Technology.
Members particularly raised eyebrows on why some clauses were either inserted or expunged in the committee report, leading Speaker of the Assembly, Honourable Adebo Ogundoyin to rule that the bill be subjected to a clause by clause consideration by the entire assembly at the day’s plenary.
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