Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of five Commissioner nominees sent to it by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.
The Speaker of the House, Rt Hon. Engr. Yakubu Danladi Salihu presided over the plenary.
Speaker recalled that the Executive Governor of Kwara State, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq had forwarded five (5) names of Nominees for screening and confirmation as Commissioners in the State Executive Councils.
He said at the plenary that the commissioner nominees were screened accordingly and Considered at the Committee of Whole.
“Thereafter, the nominees were confirmed as Commissioners in the State Executive Councils as follows:-
1- Agbaje Wahab Femi – Offa;
2- Afolabi- Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet – Ifelodun;
3- Akaje Ibrahim – Ilorin West;
4- Dr. Afees Abolore Alabi -Ilorin East; and
5- Gidado Lateef Alakawa – Asa.
Mr. Speaker then directed the Clerk to the House to Communicate the Confirmation to the Executive Governor of Kwara State immediately after the day’s Proceedings.
Before the adjournment, the Speaker acknowledged and read a letter of Apology from Hon. Jimoh Raheem Agboola (Ilorin South) wherein the Hon. Member expressed readiness to make amends with all members and work for the progress and development of the State together.
He appreciated the remorse exhibited by Hon. Agboola and the suspension order on Hon Jimoh Raheem Agboola was thereafter lifted after a unanimous vote of the House.
Also a motion on the need to reinvigorate and empower Local Vigilante Groups for effective policing of the hinterland in Kwara State: KWHAM 1, was moved by Hon. Abdullahi Halidu Danbaba (Kaiama/Kemanji/ Wajibe), and seconded by Hon. Aliyu Wahab Opakunle (Afon).
Hon. Danbaba was conscious that in recognition of security matter as a collective responsibility, the Kwara State Government has always assisted Security agencies in the State with vehicles and equipment while the local Governments on their part engaged local Vigilant personnel from among natives to tighten up security architecture in the hinterland where the conventional police is either inadequate or absent or as a compliment for the police.
He equally observed that in recent times, the impact of Vigilantee Groups are no longer felt with satisfaction in the places where they are supposed to provide security services.
“The House resolved as follows;
1- Urged His Excellency, the Governor of Kwara State to direct all the 16 LGA to Reinvigorate and empower the local Vigilante Group to provide security surveillance within their LGA;
2- Urged His Excellency, the Governor of Kwara State to give necessary support to the Commissioner of Police in Kwara State towards the deployment of the recently recruited Constabulary Police for Surveillance, intelligence and other policing services in line with the original objectives of the scheme; and
3- Urged Traditional Rulers in Kwara to assist the Government to checkmate the incursion of strangers into their domain through sensitisation of the local population on the need for prompt report of strange movements.
The House thereafter adjourned the plenary.
