Osun Assembly passes Amotekun bill

The Osun House of Assembly has passed the Osun Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps Establishment Bill 2020 following third reading, after it was presented to the Assembly on February 27 where it passed the first reading. .

Penpushing reports that, subsequently, on February 24 , a public hearing was held by the  Assembly  to inject stakeholders contributions and suggestions into the bill.

However, on Monday during its plenary the lawmakers, read and passed the bill for second reading and the House dissolved into a Committee of the Whole where grey areas in the bill were treated and a final draft of the bill adopted.

The Speaker, invoking order 87 rule 1 and 2 of the House, during the  recommitted the bill back to the Committee of the house where the lawmakers further deliberated, amended and injected new suggestions into it.

Penpushing further reports that, the new amendments made to the bill were later adopted and it was read for the third time and unanimously passed by the lawmakers, and the Speaker  after the passage of the bill, thanked his colleagues for giving the bill an accelerated passage.