Reps set up panel to screen Service Chiefs

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An ad hoc committee has been set up by the House of Representatives to screen the new Service Chiefs.

House Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, who announced the members of the committee on Tuesday, said they include all the principal officers: Majority Leader Prof. Julius Ihonvbere (APC, Edo); Deputy Majority Leader Abdullahi Halim (APC, Kogi); Chief Whip Bello Kumo (APC, Gombe); and Deputy Chief Whip Adewunmi Onanuga (APC, Ogun).

Others are Minority Leader Kingsley Chinda (PDP, Rivers), Deputy Minority Leader Aliyu Sani Madaki (NNPP, Kano), Minority Whip Ali Isa (PDP, Gombe), and Deputy Minority Whip George Ozodinobi (LP, Anambra).

Babajimi Benson of Lagos State will chair the committee.

President Bola Tinubu, last week, forwarded the names of the service chiefs to the House for confirmation.

The Service Chiefs are Christopher Musa (Chief of Defence Staff), Taoreed Lagbaja (Chief of Army Staff), Emmanuel Ogalla (Chief of Naval Staff), and Hassan Abubakar (Chief of Air Staff).

Delay in the screening of the service chiefs was due to the holiday embarked on by the lawmakers.