[Jubilation] Students rejoice as Mapoly turns Mautech .

• Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Suraju Adekunmbi

Olasunkanmi Akinlotan

Ogun State House of Assembly has passed the bill seeking to turn Moshood Abiola Polytechnic into a degree-awarding institution.

The assembly also passed a bill seeking to establish Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia.

The executive bills titled: “HB No. 10/OG/2017- A bill for a law to provide for the Establishment of Moshood Abiola University of Technology and for matters of Administration and Discipline of Students Connected Therewith”.

That of new polytechnic to be cited at Ipokia reads, “HB No. 11/OG/2017- A bill for a law to provide for the Establishment, Incorporation, Constitution and Functions of the Ogun State Polytechnics, Ipokia and for other matters Incidental Thereto or Connected Therewith”.

The passage of the two bills followed the presentation of the reports by the Chairman, House Committee on Education, Science and Technology, Hon. Victor Fasanya, who thereafter moved the motion for its adoption, while it was seconded by Hon Oyenuga Olufowobi and Olusola Bankole respectively and supported by the whole House.

It would be recalled that the executive bill was initially seeking for the MAPOLY to be turned into the a University of technology.

But during the stakeholders meeting which deliberated on the said conversion, it was suggested that ‘science’ should be accommodated in the law which will establish the University.

The appeal of the stakeholders was agreed to by the whole house to be addressed as Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology”,

The motions for the third reading of the two bills were moved by the Majority Leader, Adeyinka Mafe and seconded by the Minority Leader, Olawale Alausa and Adebowale Ojuri respectively after which the Clerk of the House, Lanre Bisiriyu did the third reading of the bills.

The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Suraju Adekunbi, who directed that the clean copy of the bills be sent to the Governor for his assent, also called on Hon. Mafe to move the motion for the adoption of the day’s plenary which was seconded by the Hon. Alausa

Source: MAPOLY press