Ogun State House of Assembly has passed a bill meant to regulate the activities of scavengers and waste dealers in the State with a view to promoting public order, environmental safety and peaceful co-existence and for related matters.

The passage of the bill with the short title: " HB No. 020/OG/2025-the Scavengers and Waste Dealers law, 2025", followed the presentation of the House Committee Report on Environment by its Chairman, Hon. Samsideen Lawal, who thereafter moved for its adoption, seconded by the Minority Leader Lukman Adeleye and supported by the all the lawmakers, through a unanimous voice vote during the plenary presided over by Speaker Oludaisi Elemide.

The bill was later read and adopted clause by clause before the Committee of the whole House, after which the Majority Leader Yusuf Sherrif moved the motion for the third reading, seconded by the Minority Leader Lukman Adeleye, and was supported by all the whole House.

The Clerk/ Head of Legislative Service, Mr. Sakiru Adebakin therefore read the bill for the third time before the State lawmakers.

The Speaker thereafter directed that the clean copy of the bill be forwarded to the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, for his assent.

In another development, Assembly has again invited all stakeholders involved in the now rested Anchor Borrowers Programmes, an initiative of the Federal Government in conjunction with the State Government over the issue of continued illegal withdrawal of personal savings of innocent farmers who were victims of the programme.

The Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Oludaisi Elemide issued the invitation today, in response to the presentation of the Minority Leader Lukman Adeleye; who raised the issue under personal explanation, citing Order 8 (47) requesting for the invitation of the stakeholders to appear before the State lawmakers on Tuesday 21st October, 2025.

 Adeleye had earlier explained that the previous interface with the stakeholders including the officials from the Central Bank of Nigeria, Wema Bank, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, State Ministry of Agriculture and Cassava Farmers Association amongst others had not yielded the desired results, as a lot of the victims of the Anchor Borrowers Programme are still experiencing illegal withdrawal of their personal funds without benefiting from the programme.

He noted that there was a need to re-invite the stakeholders, as many of the victims who were supposed to be the beneficiaries were being held liable to repay loans they never received, with their personal money reportedly withdrawn from their accounts without notice, years after the programme had ended.