Deputy speaker of the Abia State
House of Assembly and the chairman, House Committee on Information, Rt.
Hon.Cosmos Ndukwe, on Wednesday said the House would soon pass into law the
anti-grazing bill before it.
Ndukwe made this known while
interacting with newsmen at the Assembly complex in Umuahia. According to him,
the House was mindful of the fact that the farming season was almost around the
corner, and that the farmers needed some security as they go into farming
season, hence the need for accelerated passage of the bill into law to curtail
the occasional clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the state.
On the delayed passage of 2018
appropriation bill by the State House of Assembly, the Deputy Speaker said that
the committee has done its duty by extending invitation to the MDAs to defend
their budget proposals, adding that the house would not approve any money for
any MDAs if the purpose of such money could not be defended.
He further pointed out that by
the end of this week, the house will go ahead to pass the appropriation bill
into law for only those MDAs who were able to defend their budget proposals.
His words: ‘Very soon, We will
pass the anti grazing bill before us. You can see the clashes between farmers
and herdsmen, so we will ensure accelerated passage of the bill curtail to the
occasional clashes between farmers and herders’.
“Also on the delayed passage of
2018 appropriation bill, the committee has done their work well by ensuring all
the MDA’s in the state defend their budget proposal. And let it be made known
to the MDA’s that the house will not approve any budget for any MDA’s if the
purpose of such budget can not be defended”, he said.
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