Governor Yahaya Bello signs bill on disability, 15 others – TheNigerialawyer

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has signed into law, a bill
to establish disability office, guarantee and protect the rights of
Persons Living with Disabilities as well as 15 other bills.

The governor signed the bills into law at the Government House,
Lokoja, in the presence of the Speaker of the state House of
Assembly, Rt. Hon. Matthew Kolawole; the Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Mr Mohammed brahim (SAN) and other
dignitaries.

The governor described the signing of the bills as
“unprecedented”, adding that the bills were basically the
foundation of any solid and prosperous state.

He noted that Kogi State had existed for almost 28 years and no
body had ever considered it fit to make and pass those laws,
wondering how the state was administered and managed since its
creation without those laws.

The governor said that the bills signed into laws were made
possible by the commitment of the devoted and hardworking members
of the 6th House of Assembly and the current executive under his
leadership.

Speaker of the state assembly commended the governor for giving
all the needed supports to the 6th assembly without any undue
interference.

The bills are laws to establish the Disability Office, Guarantee
and Protect the Rights of Persons Living Disability; Kogi State
Polytechnic, Lokoja; Kogi State Education Endowment Trust Fund;
Establishment of Ecwa College of Nursing and Nidwifery, Egbe;
Establishment of Celuke College of Health Sciences and Technology,
Ojiapata and Kogi State Office of the Public Defender and Citizen’s
Rights Commission.

Others are; laws to make provision for the Administration of the
Estates of Deceased Persons in Kogi State by the Administraor
General; Customary Court of Appeal of Kogi State; Kogi State
University, Anyigba and Management of Funds of the Kogi State House
of Assembly.

They also include; a law to repeal the Kogi State Science,
Technology and Technical Education Board (STTEB) Law and the Kogi
State Teaching Service Commission (TSC) Law; Kogi State Science,
Technical Education and Teaching Service Commission (STETSCOM);
Kogi State Land Use Charge Law; Kogi State Drugs and Medical
Supplies Management Agency and Kogi State Agency for Social
Security and Protection of Older Citizens; among others.

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