Gov. AbdulFatah Ahmed of Kwara has signed four Bills into law, with a pledge to further improve wellbeing of residents of the state in the years ahead.
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Dr Muideen Akorede, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, made this known in a statement in Ilorin on Sunday.
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The new laws, according to the statement, are the N56.7billion Supplementary Appropriation Law 2013 and Kwara State Office of the Public Defender (Amendment) Law 2013.
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Others are the Kwara State Structures for Signage and Advertisement Agency (Amendment) Law 2013 and Kwara State Citizen's Mediation and Conciliation Centre (Amendment) Law 2013.
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It said the appropriation law was to enable the State Government to fund programmes and projects not anticipated in the 2013 appropriation bill but deemed necessary in view of current exigencies.
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The statement commended the State House of Assembly for the timely passage of the bills, adding that the governor would build on the successes recorded by his administration in 2013.
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The statement added that key life transforming projects in education, health, roads, sports, agriculture, and power sectors of the state's economy would be implemented in 2013.