Youngest Female Lawmaker Champions Energy Reform In Kwara

The youngest pistillate lawmaker, Hon. Rukayat Shittu, has sponsored and steered the Kwara State Electric Power Sector Bill, 2025 done its archetypal and 2nd readings, with the House of Assembly holding a good attended nationalist proceeding that drew monolithic enactment for the bill.

The bill, present acceptable for its 3rd reading, seeks to repeal the outdated Electricity Board Laws of 1992 and 2006, replacing them with a modern, people-centered model that empowers Kwara to instrumentality complaint of its ain energy future.

It besides domesticates the Electricity Act, 2023, which decentralised Nigeria’s vigor assemblage and granted states the authorization to found their ain energy markets.
Speaking connected the value of the Bill, Hon. Rukayyat Shittu emphasised that vigor betterment is not a luxury, but a necessity:

“Millions of our people, particularly successful agrarian communities, are inactive successful darkness. This Bill is designed to unfastened Kwara to innovative vigor solutions, pull backstage investment, and make opportunities for our people. It is not conscionable astir electricity, it is astir jobs, health, education, and improving the prime of life.”

“The Bill straight responds to Kwara’s chronic powerfulness shortages and the limitations of the nationalist grid. It positions the authorities to clasp autarkic powerfulness projects (IPPs), mini-grids, and renewable vigor solutions, portion creating an enabling situation for backstage assemblage participation”, she added.
Stakeholders person hailed the backstage member’s Bill arsenic a bold and progressive step, particularly astatine a time

when Nigeria’s energy situation continues to stall concern maturation and societal development.
They reasoned that the Bill volition guarantee that communities beyond the scope of the nationalist grid payment from localised vigor solutions.

Shittu, who represents the Owode/Onire constituency, has emerged arsenic a awesome of purposeful younker leadership, showing that property is nary obstruction to vision, courage, and impact.

With the Bill present acceptable for its 3rd reading, galore observers judge Kwara is poised to articulation the ranks of progressive states taking afloat vantage of the decentralisation of Nigeria’s vigor assemblage astatine the sub- nationalist level.