Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly have passed the Amended Enugu State Universal Basic Education Bill into law.

The bill tagged “A Bill for a Law to Amend the Enugu State Universal Basic Education Law, 2005 and to provide for Matters Connected Therewith, House Bill No. 3”, was passed into law following the consideration of the report on the bill presented on the floor of the House by the member representing Igbo-South Constituency and Chairman House Committee on Education, Hon. Matthew Elochukwu Ugwueze.

Ugwueze who had presented the report of the Joint Committee on Education, Science and Technology, gender Affairs and Social Development, Judiciary, Public Petitions and Ethics and Privileges, explained that the universal basic education which earlier covered primary education from Primary 1 to Primary 6, would now span from primary to junior secondary school popularly called JS3.

While appraising the passage of the Bill into law, Speaker of the House, Hon. Edward Uchenna Ubosi, commended the committee members for a job well done. He also commended his other colleagues for their contributions during the debate as well as the committee secretary.

“I wish to commend chairman of the Joint Committee, members of the committee, the committee secretary, honourable colleagues for a job well done,” he said.

Ubosi expressed the view that the passage of the bill would help boost basic education in Enugu State.