Senate Confirms Appointment Of 7 Nominees For CCB

…As Presidency withdraws 2

THE Senate, Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Dr. Muhammed
Isah from Jigawa State representing the North West zone as chairman
of the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB.

Also confirmed were six others as members of the Bureau.

Meanwhile, the Senate however did not confirm Danjuma Sado from
Edo State “because he is below the approved age of 50 years as
specified in Section 1(b) of the CCB Act.

Other nominees sent to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari
for appointment into the board that were screened and confirmed
were Murtala Aliyu Kankia from Katsina (North West), Emmanuel Enu
Attah from Cross River (South South), Ubolo Okpanachi from Kogi
(North Central), Ken Madaki Alkali from Nasarawa (North Central),
Prof. S.F. Ogundare from Oyo (South West) and Saad Abubakar from
Gombe (North East), respectively.

Confirmation of their appointments yesterday, followed the
consideration of the report of the Senator Samuel Anyanwu, PDP, Imo
West led Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public
Petitions on the screening of nominees for appointment as chairman
and members of the CCB.

Presenting the report, Senator Anyanwu said nomination of Sado
was not recommended for approval by the committee “when it
discovered that he was 39 years, below the age of 50 as specified
in the CCB Act Section 1(b)”.

According to him, section stipulates “that the Bureau shall
consist of a chairman and nine other members who shall be at the
time of appointment, not less than fifty years.

“From their educational background, experience and exposure as
noticed during the screening, only seven (7) nominees are suitable,
qualified and competent to hold such high office as the Code of
Conduct Bureau on behalf of government and the nation Nigeria”.

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Senator Anyanwu then advised the Executive to appoint three
other nominees for consideration as members of the board of Bureau
to complete the number of members statutorily required.

It was gathered that the nomination of both Hon. Ganiyu Hamzat
from Ogun State (South West) and Dr. Vincent Nwanli from Ebonyi
(South East) might have been withdrawn by the Presidency as they
were conspicuously missing on the list of nominees screened by the
committee.