The Senate yesterday confirmed 21 nominees for appointment as federal commissioners in the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).
The Senate’s resolution followed the consideration of the report of its joint Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs and Finance during plenary.
In August, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu nominated the 21 federal commissioners-designate for appointment in RMAFC pending the Senate’s confirmation.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs, Yahaya Abdullahi (PDP, Kebbi North), presented the report, titled: “That the Senate do receive and consider the report of the Joint Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs and Finance on the confirmation of the nominations for appointment as Federal Commissioners in the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).”
Abdullahi said the Senate had, during its plenary on Tuesday, September 24, considered President Tinubu’s request for the confirmation of the nominees in RMAFC and referred same to the joint committee.
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He said: “From the documents made available to the committees, the nominees satisfied the requirements for appointment in the public service and are, therefore, proper and fit to serve as federal commissioners in RMAFC.”
The nominees include Mrs. Linda Oti (Abia), Mr. Akpan Effiong (Akwa Ibom), Mr. Enefe Ekene (Anambra), Prof. Steve Ugbah (Benue), Mr. Eyo Whiley (Cross River), Aruviere Egharhevwe (Delta), Nduka Awuregu (Ebonyi), Mr. Victor Eboigbe (Edo), Wumi Ogunlola (Ekiti), Ozo Obodougo (Enugu), Mr. Mohammed Usman (Gombe), Alhaji Kabir Mashi (Katsina), and Adamu Fanda (Kano).
Others are: Prof. Olusegun Wright (Lagos), Aliyu Al-Makura Abdulkadir (Nasarawa), Bako Shetima (Niger), Mr. Amosun Akintayo (Ogun), Dr. Nathaniel Adojutelegan (Ondo), Saad Ibrahim (Plateau), Mr. Modu Juluri (Yobe), and Bello Garba (Zamfara).
Senate President Godswill Akpabio urged the new appointees to give their best in the service to their fatherland.
He also advised them to be good ambassadors of their states and the country.
