The Oyo House of Assembly has approved a N6 billion loan facility for the state government to finance existing infrastructural projects in the state.
The approval came after Governor Seyi Makinde forwarded a letter of request for an additional N5billion loan facility and the balance of N1billion window both of the First Bank Nigeria be made available to the Oyo State government.
The Assembly approved the request stating that the facility will help in bridging infrastructural deficit and ensuring ongoing projects by the current administration are not abandoned but continued.
While slamming the gavel in favour of the request, Speaker of the Assembly, Honourable Adebo Ogundoyin said the state Assembly should be held responsible if the loans it has been approving put the state in jeopardy.
Furthermore, Ogundoyin said the Assembly will ensure that the loans approved for the current administration are not a burden for administrations to come.
He added that the Assembly will ensure that the loans are used for infrastructural projects as approved and are paid within the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible interest rate.
Meanwhile, the Oyo State House of Assembly will on Thursday screen Mr David Okediji as the Chairman-designate for the newly established Oyo State Audit Service Commission.
Makinde had in the letter requested the approval of the House for the appointment of Mr Okediji as the Chairman following the recent passage of the Audit Commission Bill, 2021 by the Oyo State House of Assembly.
In a motion also presented at Tuesday’s plenary, the Assembly condemned rampant sexual harassment of women in offices within the state Secretariat and other public offices across the state.
As contained in a motion jointly sponsored by Honourable Olawumi Oladeji (Ogbomoso North) and Honourable Adebo Ogundoyin (Ibarapa East), the Assembly bemoaned that the public offices which should be for effective handling of government official business had become a haven where female workers are being induced with a material or monetary promise to sexually abuse them.
The Assembly expressed concern that such sexual assault exposed females to psychological, emotional trauma as well as several social and health consequences.
To stem the tide, the Assembly urged the office of the Head of Service to take immediate action in line with extant service regulations to discipline employees who harass other employees.
Similarly, heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies were asked to set machinery in motion to implement recently-assented Violence Against Persons Law and investigate issues of sexual assault in their various offices.
Furthermore, the Assembly urged the Oyo State Road Maintenance Agency (OYSROMA) to commence the process of rehabilitation of Oremeji-Agugu-Babanla-Ogbere ldi Osan-Gbaremu-Airport roads so as to alleviate the suffering of residents and road users.
Deputy Speaker, Honourable Abiodun Fadeyi, who brought the motion to plenary, decried that the network of roads was an eyesore with drainages that had fallen off and flood which had the road impassable, as a result of years of neglect.
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