The Osun State House of Assembly on Monday passed the State Land Use Charge Bill 2016.

The bill, which was sponsored by the executive, “seeks to make provision for the consolidation of all Property and Land Based Rates Law.”

According to a statement in Osogbo on Monday by the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr. Olatubosun Oyintiloye, the bill was passed following a motion moved by the Leader of the House, Mr. Timothy Owoeye, for the third reading.

He added that the bill was seconded by member representing Ede South constituency, Nureni Adebisi, at the plenary.


 
Pronouncing the passage of the bill, the Speaker, Mr. Najeem Salaam, according to Oyintiloye, said its passage was delayed to ensure that affordable rate that would not put unnecessary burden on the people was arrived at.

The Speaker was quoted to have stressed that the present economic situation required that every property owner must contribute to support the government.

The statement partly read, “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.

“Mr. Speaker then sought the understanding of the people over the new law and assured them 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.”