bans female members from wearing sleeveless dresses
Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday constituted a 15-man committee saddled with task of screening the 23 commissioner and 14 special adviser nominees forwarded, last week, to the House by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode as his would-be cabinet members.
Mudashiru Obasa, House speaker who read the name of the committee members, said the ad-hoc committee appointed Wasiu Sanni, the deputy speaker, as chairman.
Other members of the 15-man ad-hoc committee are Jimoh Wahab, Abiru Lateef, Omotayo Oduntan, Akeem Bello, Victor Akande, Lanre Ogunyemi, Rotimi Olowo, Muhammed Folajimi, Bosi Yusuf, Saka Fafunmi, Adekanye Oladele, Olanrewaju Layode, Segun Olulade, and Yinka Ogundimu.
The committee, according to Obasa, will carry out the preliminary screening of the nominees before they appear before the House. The speaker noted that the constitution allowed the lawmakers to embark on actions that would ease lawmaking processes.
Meantime, the House has banned female lawmakers from wearing sleeveless blouse or body clinging dressing to the assembly while male lawmakers must dress corporate to the House always.
This was contained in the ‘Amended Code of Ethics for honourable members of the Lagos House of Assembly,’ read by the chairman of the six-man ad-hoc committee setup by the House on the issue, Rotimi Abiru, the Chief Whip of the House.
While reading the recommendation adopted by the House, Abiru said all lawmakers must on every Thursday dress in Yoruba attire, saying “on this day, the house conduct its activities in Yoruba.”
