Osun House of Assembly has proposed a six-month jail time or N20,000 fine for skating on public roads or sidewalks in the state.
The lawmakers reached the resolution while deliberating on the “Osun State Skating Restriction Bill 2025”; during a sitting of the committee of the whole on Tuesday in Abeokuta.
While reporting on the details and changes made to the bill by the committee of the whole during plenary, the Chairman of the Committee and Speaker of the Assembly, Adewale Egbedun, said that roller skating/skating were indoor activities and therefore should be restricted indoors.
According to him, the law, when passed, would empower citizens to arrest any person skating on public roads and hand them over to the police.
Egbedun further stated that the law would provide concurrent jurisdiction to magistrates’ courts and high courts in the state to sit on cases of such offences.
“Anybody or persons who skate or use roller skates on public roads or sidewalks shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not less than six months or alternative sentencing of payment of sum not less than N250,000 or both,”; he said.
Thereafter, the assembly again dissolved into the committee of the whole to further deliberate on the “Osun State Multi-Door Court House Establishment Bill 2025”;.
