Bauchi Assembly passes 5 bills into law •Seeks to make HIV/AIDS test compulsory

IN a move to deepen good governance with a view to
enhancing the standard of living of the people of the
state, the Bauchi State House of Assembly passed
five bills before it into law, even as it sent a bill on
making the Human Immuno Deficiency Virus/
Acquired Immuned Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS)
test before marriage in the state to the assembly's
committee on health for further consideration.
Briefing newsmen on the activities of the assembly,
the chairman House Committee on Information,
Honourable Dayyabu Chiroma, stated that the bills
passed into law were the bill to restrict ceremonial
horse riding in the state capital, bill to provide
auditing of public account, bill to amend law for
primary health care delivery agency, bill to create an
agency for orphans and vulnerable children and the
bill to amend local government system in the state,
which sought to reduce the tenure of the 20 local
government areas chairmen from two and half years
to two years.
According to Honourable Chiroma, the speaker of the
assembly, Honourable Yahaya Miya, had directed the
clerk of the assembly to prepare clean copies of the
five bills for onward transmission to the executive for
the assent of Governor Isa Yuguda.
Meanwhile, the assembly has considered a bill
seeking to make HIV/AIDS test for intending couples
in the state compulsory before getting married.
The bill, according to the Honourable Chiroma, which
was sponsored by Honourable Iliyasu Zwall,
representing Lere/Bula state constituency, was
aimed at reducing the menace of the HIV/AIDS
scourge in the society.