Barely 48 hours to the end of the second tenure of Adams Oshiomhole as governor of Edo State, the governor on Wednesday presented three executive bills to members of the Edo State House of Assembly for consideration.
The governor would of Friday handover the political leadership of the state to Godwin Obaseki, the governor-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last September 28, 2016 governorship election in the state.
The three executive bills dated November 8, sent to the House for consideration are – bill to reverse the 2016 appropriation law, bill to amend law establishing Edo University, Iyamho, and a bill to establish multi-door courts in the state.
The bill to reverse the 2016 appropriation law was hinged on reduction of monthly allocation to the state from the federation account as a result of fall in the prices of oil.
The 2016 appropriation law of N116 billion was however reduced to N115.9 billion, representing a difference of N700 million.
The House also reversed the current and capital expenditure to N63 billion and N52.492.706 billion, respectively, as against the hitherto appropriation bill assented to by the governor of N57.1 billion for recurrent and N59.5 billion capital expenditure.
The leadership of the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had last Sunday, at a press conference, accused the outgoing governor of sending a supplementary budget of N5 billion few days to the exit of his administration.
The House also gave nod to the governor’s request to amend the name of the Edo University, Iyamho, Uzairue, to Edo State University of Science and Technology, Iyamho.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday inaugurated the university located in the governor’s community with the name Edo University, Iyamho.
The third bill was for the establishment of multi-door courts in the state. Speaker of the House, Justine Okonoboh said the bill was to decongest operations in the conventional courts in the state.
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