Group Tasks Kogi Govt On Law To Set up Library Board

As part of moves to revive the reading culture, a civil society organisation, Centre For Family Rescue, Law And Development (CENFARLD), has called on the Kogi State government to initiate a bill to provide a legal framework for the constitution of the state’s Library Board.

This was part of the outcome of the communique issued at the end of a one-day stakeholders engagement on “Reviving The Kogi State Library And Strengthening Culture Of Reading In Kogi State.”

The communique signed by the founder of CENFARLD, Ajuma Lilian Okolo;
and Kogi NGOs Network (KONGONET) Hamza Aliyu, chairman.

They said the stakeholders engagement was organised by the CSO at the Stella Obasanjo Library, on Friday in Lokoja.

The stakeholders said a bill to provide for the operation of the State Library Board has to be sent to the Kogi State House of Assembly for passage to enable the board live up to its responsibility.

The communique also underscored the need to improve on the budgetary allocations to the Board as the annual budgetary provisions for the operation of the Library have always been grossly inadequate.

It said management of the Library should be put in place and that modalities for the re-connection of the Stella Obasanjo Library complex to the National Grid, after over 15 years without power, should be done.