Date: 2019-10-23

Kwara State House of Assembly will on Friday October 25th, 2019, hold Public Hearing on the Kwara State Sports Commission Bill, at the Hallowed Chamber of the Assembly Complex, beginning from 10am.

The Public Hearing will be conducted by the House Committee on Youth, Sports, Culture, Tourism and Information.

According to reports, the House at its Plenary of Tuesday September 26th, 2019 referred the Kwara State Sports Commission and other Connected Purposes Bill, 2019 to the Committee, to conduct Public Hearing of the Bill.

To this end, various stakeholders in the sports industry in the state, including the Ministry of Sports and Youth Development have been invited.

Others are past and present managers of the Sports Council, Sports Association Chairmen, Sports Writers Association of Nigeria and other relevant bodies. The invitees have been urged to furnish the Committee with position papers on the Bill, either in hard or soft copies.

The law to provide for the establishment of Kwara State Sports Commission and for Connected Purposes Bill was sponsored by Hon. Magaji Abubakar Olawoyin (Ilorin Central), who is also the House Leader.

If passed into law, the functions of the Commission will include, to formulate and implement sports policies in the state, encourage mass participation in all forms of sports, work with schools and other relevant agencies in the Ministry of Education to develop school sports, facilitate the training of athletes, coaches and sports administrators in different sports in the state, among others.