Kogi Assembly Speaker Justifies Speedy Passage Of KSU Kabba Bill
…describes it as ‘an age-long prayer answered’
The Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Aliyu Umar Yusuf has justified the expeditious passage into law of the bill for the establishment of Kogi State University Kabba, by the state lawmakers.
Hon. Yusuf said it had become imperative for the House to pass the bill due to the exigency it required in response to the age-long desire of the Okuns.
According to him, “The people of Okun extraction in Kogi State have craved for a university for over six decades and wished all along to have one but to no avail.
“The bill for the establishment of Kogi State University was therefore expeditiously passed into law due to the exigency it required in response to the age-long desire of the Okuns.”
The Speaker made the assertion on Thursday in his office while briefing journalists on the proceedings of the chamber.
Hon. Yusuf said the people of old Kabba Province have consistently been the brain box and manpower hub of Northern Nigeria yet could not boast of a university of their own.
He explained that the district deserves the establishment of the University in view of its importance as a major supplier of critical manpower to other part of the country.
He argued that if the Eastern and Central flanks of the state could boast of universities in their immediate domains, then the western axis deserves more.
This he said accounted for Governor Yahaya Bello’s desire in establishing the Okun University, saying it was to create a balance in the education sector of the state.
Rt Hon. Yusuf noted that the massive turnout of stakeholders including traditional rulers, captains of industries, community leaders, government functionaries, and politicians at the public hearing, plus the presentation of memoranda was an attestation to the hunger and craving of the people for the establishment of the institution in Okun land.
He added that the bill was expeditiously passed into law to respond to the people’s desire and balance the equation in the educational sector in the state, contrary to biased views expressed by opposition parties and pesstmists.
On the bill on kidnapping which was repealed and reenacted, he said it was to stem the daily rise of crime especially kidnapping in the society.
Yusuf pointed out that there was a great need to address the lust for materialism and wealth through illegal means such as kidnapping by enacting better laws.
“It’s therefore imperative that we give teeth to our laws so that criminals would not escape through the loopholes and would-be criminals would desist”,
The speaker reiterated that the lawmakers were elected to make laws and give their constituents good representation.
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