Kogi Assembly To Go Digital – Speaker

Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Aliyu Umar Yusuf, has said the legislature is making concerted efforts to digitalise lawmaking successful enactment with the existent planetary realities.

He made the connection yesterday successful Lokoja astatine the inception of a gathering of the Legislative Openness and Oversight Project (LOOP), a programme being implemented by a civilian nine organisation, the Initiative for Grassroots Advancement (INGRA) successful the state.

He noted that the existent Assembly is made up of radical who are dedicated to entrenching transparency and accountability successful enactment with the objectives of Open Governance Partnership (OGP) project.

Umar, who was represented astatine the juncture by the subordinate representing Ajaokuta State Constituency successful the State Assembly, Hon Jibril Abu, noted that the Eight Assembly is 1 that promotes inclusive governance conscionable similar the medication of Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo is doing successful the executive.

According to the speaker, the State House of Assembly is determined to unfastened up the lawmaking process to guarantee robust process that would thrust inclusive governance, and enjoined members of the Civil Society successful the authorities not to neglect successful consulting members of the authorities legislature successful areas that would beryllium mutually beneficial.

The LOOP project, the talker said, is successful enactment with the objectives of the contiguous lawmakers, who helium besides said are committed to bully governance done prime laws that would beforehand the socio-economic improvement of Kogi State.

Earlier successful his address, the president of the Assembly’s Committee connected Information, Hon Bode Ogunmola had expressed gratitude to the enactment implementing the task successful the state, stressing the committedness of the Assembly to ensuring transparency successful accusation dissemination arsenic they interest the activities of the legislature.

He was speedy to accent connected the request for the enactment to marque itself disposable to beryllium supplied with each the publically disposable accusation that they seek.

In his opening address, the enforcement manager of the Initiative for Grassroots Advancement (INGRA), Hamza Aliyu, had cleared the misconception successful immoderate quarters that Civil Society Organizations are adversaries to government, noting, rather, that they are partners successful progress.

He noted that the nonsubjective of the 8 period – agelong programme was to make a integer legislative repository for the authorities for openness successful the lawmaking process successful Kogi State.

Against that backdrop, helium said the task is warehousing bills, motions, laws, oversight activities, budgets, reports, bid papers and different documents astir the activities of the Assembly that tin beryllium accessed by the click of a button.

Other lawmakers, including the subordinate representing Lokoja I State Constituency, Hon Bin-Ebaiya Shehu Tijjani, the subordinate representing Kogi Kotonkarfe State Constituency, Hon Idrees Aliyu and the subordinate representing Igalamela Odolu State Constituency, Hon Major Enefola were  contiguous astatine the event, conscionable arsenic were members of Kogi State NGOs Network and others.