Joint House Committee on Youth, Sports and Security Matters and Finance and Appropriation of the Enugu state House of Assembly, Monday presented a report on a bill for a law to establish the state security trust fund before the House.
Presenting the report on the floor of the House, the Joint committee chairman, Chinedu Okwu, said his committee consulted with security experts to ensure that the bill was not controversial.
According to him, the committee agreed that the bill was carefully drafted as it reflected the totality of the intent for which it was to address, adding that the bill should be passed into law without further amendment.
Okwu, representing Aninri constituency, noted that the bill, when passed, will enhance security of lives and property of both the indigenes and residents of the state, which he said is in tandem with the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The speaker of the Assembly, Hon. Edward Ubosi, thanked the committee for the comprehensive report, which he said would be deliberated on a later day.
The speaker emphasised that the seventh Assembly will only pass a law that will have positive impact in Enugu state and its citizens.
The House thereafter adjourned its sitting to Thursday, January 30, 2020 for further legislative activities.
