The Edo House of Assembly has adjourned sitting indefinitely to enable it conduct compulsory COVID-19 test for members and members of staff.
The COVID-19 test for the assembly workers followed the discovery of a second confirmed case of corona virus in the complex.
The speaker, Frank Okiye who made the announcement during plenary Monday, noted that the disease is spreading at an alarming rate in across in the state.
The speaker who was the first index case of the disease in the state and the assembly complex early this year is appealing to the lawmakers and members of staff to make themselves available for the test as the house will require a healthy workforce to carry on with its statutory legislative duties.
You will recall that the Edo state house of assembly a fortnight ago relocated to the Edo state government to enable health officials fumigate and decontaminate the complex against Covid 19 according to the Speaker, Felix Okiye.
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Meanwhile, a bill for a law to establish the Edo State mortgage agency and regulate mortgage creation, foreclosure and enforcement of mortgage in real estate was given its first reading.
(Editor:Abaje Usekwe)
