Determined to protect child rights and the need to promote welfare of workers and ensure successful retirement for them, Ogun State House of Assembly has passed the State Child Rights bill as well as the Pension Reform (Amendment) bill.
Presenting reports of the Committees on the two bills, the Chairman of the House of Assembly Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development,
Honourable Elizabeth Anifowose and her Establishments and Public Services Matters counterpart, Hon Samuel Solarin, had earlier presented the clause- to- clause amendments to the bills before the committee of the whole house, led by the Speaker, Hon Suraj Ishola Adekunbi.
Passing the two bills separately at the plenary, the Speaker, Honourable Suraj Ishola Adekunbi, ordered that the clean copies of the bills be sent to the State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun for his assents.
With the passage of the bill, H.B. No. 28/OG/2013- Ogun State Child Rights law, 2013- a bill for a law to provide for the protection, enforcement and advancement of the rights and welfare of the child in the State and other matters incidental thereto or connected therewith would further enhance child protection and curb any form of abuse against the child.
The bill when signed into law would also help to protect children in need of care and protection as well as ensure a better future for them.
On its part, the H.B. No. 31/OG/2013 the Pension Reform
(Amendment) Law, 2013- a bill for a law to amend the Ogun State Pension Reform Law, 2006 would ensure that workers are not retired into poverty.
The bill when signed into law would also ensure that employees from State and Local government who were in the Service as at December 31 , 2007 and would retire on or before July 1, 2015 would be exempted from the New Pension Scheme as such officers would be covered under the Transitional Pension Scheme and their monthly contributions to Retirement Saving Account (RSA) shall stop forthwith.