The Ebonyi State House of Assembly has moved a motion to ban masquerading in public places in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state.
The Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Moses Odunwa, disclosed this on Thursday, during the first year of the 7th State Assembly members in the hallowed chamber.
Odunwa said the motion to ban masquerading in public places was intended to bring an immediate and permanent end to the alleged barbarism in the area.
According to him: “A motion to ban masquerading at public places in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state aimed at bringing an immediate and permanent end to barbarism in Okwor Ngbo Market.”
He recalled that a masquerade popularly known as “Ugwoke Omebe” beat ministers of God recently at the said Okwor Ngbo Market square.
The Speaker earlier noted that the state’s seventh assembly has made 16 laws and moved six motions, which, in his words, has a direct bearing on the advancement and economic development of the state.
The laws included Ebonyi State Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency Law 2023; Ebonyi State Boundary and Allied Matters Commission Law 2023; and Ebonyi State Rural Access Roads Authority Law 2023.
Others are Ebonyi State Roads Fund Law 2023; Ebonyi State Drugs and Medical Commodities Management Agency Law 2023; Ebonyi State Statistics Law 2023; Ebonyi State Revised Appropriation Law 2023; Ebonyi State Appropriation Law 2023; and Ebonyi State Physical Planning Permit Regulation Law 2024.
The remaining ones are Ebonyi State Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law 2024;
Ebonyi State Building Control Regulation Law 2024; Ebonyi State Chief Registrars (Harmonization with the Permanent Secretaries) Law 2024; Ebonyi State Citizens Mediation Centre Law, 2024; Ebonyi State Honours (Amendment) Law 2024; Ebonyi State Correctional Service and Regulation Law 2024; and Ebonyi State International Airport Law 2024, all of which were passed by the House within a year in office.
The House also moved a motion for the upgrade of the state’s 10 Model Junior Secondary Schools to fully operational and a motion for the rehabilitation of the culvert along Abakaliki-Enugu Express Way. According to Odunwa, the culvert was a death trap but has been properly fixed and is currently in use.
The Speaker also mentioned that the House Resolution concerning the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission’s Local Government Elections 2024 Budget Proposal was also mentioned as an achievement of the 7th State Assembly’s first year in office.