{"id":110119,"date":"2019-04-24T00:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110119"},"modified":"2019-04-24T00:15:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:15:18","slug":"kwara-assembly-stops-incoming-govt-from-dissolving-lg-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110119","title":{"rendered":"Kwara Assembly stops incoming-govt. from dissolving LG councils"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Kwara State House of Assembly, on Tuesday passed a bill to restrain incoming government from dissolving the existing 16 local government councils of the state before the expiration of their three-year tenure.<\/p>\n

The bill, which is an amendment, is sponsored by Mr Kamal Fagbemi (PDP-Okeogun) and passed after the members expressed satisfaction with all clauses contained in the document.<\/p>\n

The motion for the third reading and passage of the bill was moved by the House Majority Leader, Mr Hassan Oyeleke, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

Before the passage of the bill, the lawmakers in their contributions, described as unconstitutional the dissolution of democratically elected local councils.<\/p>\n

The Deputy Speaker, Mathew Okedare, who presided over the plenary, directed the Clerk of the House, Hajiya Halimat Kperogi, to prepare a clean copy of the bill for the governor\u2019s assent.<\/p>\n

Okedare said that the third tier of government was strategic to accelerated socio-economic transformation at the grassroots.<\/p>\n

The last local government elections were held in the state on Nov. 17, 2017 where all the 16 councils and the then All Progressives Congress won all the seats (APC).<\/p>\n

The members of the councils are expected to spend three years in office.<\/p>\n

They, however, defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) shortly before the 2019 general elections.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kwara State House of Assembly, on Tuesday passed a bill to restrain incoming government from dissolving the existing 16 local government councils of the state before the expiration of their three-year tenure. The bill, which is an amendment, is sponsored by Mr Kamal Fagbemi (PDP-Okeogun) and passed after the members expressed satisfaction with all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1893],"class_list":["post-110119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-kwara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}