…Calls For Oral and Written Contributions From Public, Ministries, Organizations
The Delta State House of Assembly has scheduled Tuesday, October 28, 2025, for Public hearing on a bill for a law to repeal the rent control and recovery of residential premises law 1977 and establish the landlord and tenant law of Delta State 2025 and other connected matters.l
The bill was read in the floor of the house for the second time and consequently referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Women Affairs, Girl Child Entrepreneur and Humanitarian Support Services, and Committee on Physical Planning and Urban Renewal for further legislative scrutiny.
A statement by the Chairman, Assembly Committee on Housing, Women Affairs, Girl Child Entrepreneur and Humanitarian Support Services, Hon. Bridget Anyafulu, says the public hearing will hold at the Press Centre of the State Assembly Complex, at 11am.
The statement welcomes contributions either written or oral from interested organizations, including Commissioners For Justice, Housing, Physical Planning And Urban Renewal and Information.
Others include the Chairman Board Of Trustee and President’s General Association Of Organized Realtors, Landlord Association, the Tenant Association as well as Stakeholders from The Public And Private Sectors
It adds that all memoranda should be enclosed in sealed envelopes addressed to the Chairman House Committee on Housing, Women Affairs and Girl Child Entrepreneur and Humanitarian Support Services, marked Delta State Repeal the Rent Control and Recovery of Residential Premises Law 1977 and establish the Landlord and Tenant Law of the Delta State 2025.
It further urged those wishing to give oral testimony to contact the Committee Clerk, Mrs. Esther Ezeocha-Ekwuaja, between the hours of 9am and 2pm, at the Delta State House of Assembly Complex, Okpanam Road, Asaba.