Abeokuta – Mr Mudashiru Obasa, the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday said that the House would not let down Lagosians in its legislative duties and oversight functions.
Speaking in Abeokuta at a seminar for Lagos lawmakers, Obasa promised that the Assembly would spend the rest of its term working for the benefit of the people.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the 3-day training and capacity-building seminar holding at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library is ‘Enhancing Capacity for Emerging Challenges and State Development’.
The speaker urged the lawmakers to be more determined to achieve results and make themselves true representatives of the people of the state.
“No efforts should be spared at mapping out an effective strategy that could help us in tackling the increasing poverty, unemployment and misery that have been confronting our people owing to the worsening global economic woes.
“As lawmakers, the time has come for us to gird our loins in our determination to successfully battle these problems and liberate our people once and for all,” he said.
He tasked his colleagues to open up themselves to new ideas to make the eighth Assembly the most pro-people and pro-development legislative house in the country.
Obasa urged the lawmakers to ensure that the 2016 budget was properly scrutinised and promptly approved so that the people could start enjoying the dividends of democracy.
Earlier, the Clerk of the House, Mr Ganiyu Abiru, said that the theme of the seminar was carefully designed in consonance with the change mantra of the current political dispensation.
Abiru said: “You would all recall that the last general election that ushered in the current government in the state and the national level has left no one in doubt as to its reformation agenda.
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Abiru emphasised that the leadership of the House equally took its time to carefully reconstitute the various House committees for effective legislation, effective oversight and efficient service delivery. (NAN)