Osun State House of Assembly has on Monday passed into law, the State Land Use Charge Bill 2016.
According to a statement by the Chairman, House Committee
on Information and Strategy, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, the passage of the
bill followed a motion by the Leader of the house, Honourable Timothy
Owoeye for the third reading and seconded by member representing Ede
South constituency, Nureni Adebisi at the plenary.
The bill, which, he said was sponsored by the executive arm
of government was seeking to make provision for the Consolidation of
all Property and Land Based Rates Law, the Neighbourhood improvement
Charge Law and Tenement Rate Law into a new Land Based Charge, to be
called Property Land Use Charge to make provision for the levying and
collection of the charges and for connected purposes.
The Assembly had on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 held a public
hearing on the bill, where professional bodies and other stakeholders
lauded the bill and said, it was coming at the appropriate time.
Pronouncing the passage of the bill, the Speaker,
Honourable Najeem Salaam, according to Oyintiloye, said its passage was
delayed to ensure that affordable rate that would not put unnecessary
burden on the people are arrived at.
According to him, the speaker was quoted to have stressed
that the present economic situation require that every property owner
must contribute to support the government.
"Mr Speaker charged the executive to ensure effective
sensitisation of the people to key in into the new law and see reason to
pay the appropriate charges.
"He also called on the implementers of the new law not to
hide under it to put unnecessary burden on the people, urging that the
law should rather be used for the benefit of the people", he said.
"Mr speaker then sought the understanding of the people
over the new law and assured that the state Assembly would monitor its
implementation when assented to by the governor, to ensure its
effectiveness to the extent that it would not add unnecessary burden on
the people of the state", he added.
Meanwhile, the Assembly, at the plenary resumed further
consideration of the Primary Healthcare Development Board Bill and made
amendment from Clause 29 to 38 of the bill.
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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