Lanrey Osho To Launch New Book on Kwara Assembly December 30

The Deputy Coordinator Elites Network for Sustainable (ENetSuD) and Public Affairs Analyst, Comrade Mashood Lanrey Osho will on Saturday, December 30, 2023 launch new book titled-MY RANDOM THOUGHTS: A WAKE-UP CALL TO THE 10TH KWARA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

The launching will hold at NBA Hall kwara State High Court, Ilorin by 10am..

The book contains letters written to the 10th Kwara State House of Assembly as a reminder to the 24 Honourable members that they were elected by their various constituencies.

The book is a constructive assessment of the Kwara State House of Assembly, especially the 9th Assembly with advice for the 10th Assembly. It puts the 10th Assembly on its toes to perform its duties as true representatives of their constituencies in the State. It

Comrade Lanrey Osho in the book urged the representatives of the people to stand firm and be independent of the Executive to avoid the pitfalls of the 9th Assembly.

He opined that the lawmakers should be rubber stamp of the Executive but stand as representative their constituencies.

The book stresses the significance of the Legislature in a ”Constitutional Democracy” or ”Representative Democracy” and how closest it is to the grassroots.

It touches many issues that range from politics, democracy, health, education,
unemployment, agriculture and food security, human rights, freedom of information bills, economy, sustainable development, environment and climate change, fuel subsidy, pension, drug abuse, roles of taxpayers in a democracy among others.

The book will serve as a guide to the 10th Assembly in its Legislative duties, especially the ENetSuD’s reports on assessment needs of the communities in the 193 Wards of the State.

The book advocates for justiciable wealth redistribution and social justice in Kwara to make participatory democracy functional. It is short of calling for a paradigm shift by changing to bottom to the top approach in wealth redistribution. This will address the challenges of social crisis in the State’s political economy and constitutes a new order in Governance in the State of Harmony.

The book is also a compendium of topical issues on democracy and sustainable development, climate change, agriculture, food security and employment, social justice, wealth redistribution and human rights among others in Kwara State.