Appointments: Reps To Probe Buhari

The House of Representatives is set to investigate all appointments into Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office.

The lawmakers said this in reaction to public outcry over imbalance in recent appointments‎.

House Committee on Federal Character has been mandated to carry out a comprehensive overview of all Federal government appointments/recruitments during this dispensation

The House of Representatives is set to investigate all appointments into Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office.

The lawmakers said this in reaction to public outcry over imbalance in recent appointments‎.

House Committee on Federal Character has been mandated to carry out a comprehensive overview of all Federal government appointments/recruitments during this dispensation.

“Section 14 (3) of the Constitution also made it clear that ‘The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few States or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that government or in any of its agencies’.

“It was towards the realisation of the above objectives that the Federal Character Commission (FCC) was established under the Federal Character Commission (Establishment, etc) Act, 2004, with responsibility to promote, monitor and enforce compliance with the principles of the proportional sharing of all bureaucratic, economic and political posts at all levels of government.

“It is however worrisome that the Federal Government and the Federal Character Commission (FCC) have not lived up to the above mandate as there exists numerous cases of lopsidedness and imbalance in appointments and sharing of posts/offices, including the recent recruitments by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) appointments into boards and parastatals and more recently the nomination of Ambassadors, to mention but a few.

“Unless urgent and positive steps are taken to check the prevailing imbalance in the appointments and sharing of Federal Government posts, people would continue to be discontented and despondent, and this could lead to dis-unity and disloyalty, and heighten ethnic agitations and national insecurity”.

Meanwhile, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, had recently declared that ‎Buhari’s political appointments were‎ not what mattered but the well-being of an average person.


Source:  DailyPost

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