President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Professor
Bolaji Owasanoye as the chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other
related offences Commission (ICPC).
The president in a one-page letter to Senate
President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, which was read on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday also seek Senate confirmation for eight other members of the
commission.
The letter, dated October 27, 2017, was titled: ‘Confirmation
of the appointment of the chairman and members of the Independent Corrupt
Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC)’.
Those nominees include Dr. Grace Chinda (Delta), Okolo Titus (Enugu), Obiora Igwedebia (Anambra), Mrs.
Olubukola Balogun (Lagos) and Justice Adamu Bello from Katsina State.
Others are Hannatu Mohamed from Jigawa State,
Abdullahi Maikano Saidu from Niger and Yahaya
Dauda from Nasarawa State.
The letter reads: “In compliance with the provision
of Section 38(6) of the Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission
(Establishment) Act, 2000, I have the pleasure to present the under listed
names for confirmation as chairman and members of the Independent Corrupt
Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) by the senate."
President Buhari in the letter pleaded for the Senate
"usual expeditious consideration" in approving the nominees.
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