Lagos State House of Assembly has on Thursday passed the Value Added Tax (VAT) Bill, with Speaker Mudashiru Obasa directing the Acting Clerk of the House, Mr. Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for his assent.
In the same vein, the House passed the bill that prohibits open cattle grazing in the state.
With unanimous votes, the two bills were passed by the lawmakers at the sitting where the bills were read the third time.
After the passage of the two bills, Speaker Obasa thanked his colleagues for their passion to see that the state continues to grow.
“I thank you all for this historic exercise,” Obasa said.
The House had held separate public hearings on the bills on Wednesday, with stakeholders expressing support for the bills.
With this, Lagos State is the second State, following Rivers State, to pass VAT bill to remove it from the federal government of Nigeria.