The three council chairmen who had been fired by the Oyo State House of Assembly have now been reinstated.
They are Mr. Sheriff Adeojo (Ido), Mr. Jelil Adebare Oyinloye, and Mrs. Oluwakemi Juliana Akanni (Olorunaogo).
The choice was made in accordance with the advice of an ad hoc committee formed by the house to look into the complaints filed against the council leaders.
While Mrs. Akanni and Mr. Adeojo were reinstated on the grounds that they were innocent of the accusations made against them, Oyinloye was asked to return to his position on the grounds that his petitioner withdrew the petition against him, according to the committee chairman, Akintunde Olajide, who gave a presentation of the report during yesterday's plenary.
Also during yesterday’s plenary, the House, as part of its overall resolve to rid the state of cultism and related activities, a bill to prohibit the act scaled second reading.
The bill was jointly sponsored by Speaker Adebo Ogundoyin, Minority Leader Asimiyu Alarape and Party Whip Isiaka Kazeem Tunde.
The bill seeks to abrogate the Secret Cultism Prohibition Act of 2000, which seeks to limit cult activities to only a few places.
When passed, it will become an offence to belong to cults or engage in cult-related activities in primary and secondary schools, higher institutions and other public places, including markets, offices, communities and so on.