President Muhammadu Buhari has
sworn-in 27-year-old Hannatu Muhammad as a member of the board of the
Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC).
Muhammad was appointed as one of
the board members to represent the youth in compliance with the provision of
the ICPC Act.
According to the Act, the board shall
include “a youth not being less than 21 or more than 30 years of age at the
time of his or her appointment”.
The president also swore-in
Bolaji Owasanoye, who was screened and cleared by the senate in 2018, as the
chairman of the commission.
Other members are Grace Chinda
(Delta); Olubukola Balogun (Lagos); Okolo Titus-(Enugu); Obiora Iqwedebia
(Anambra); Adamu Bello (Katsina); Abdullahi Maikanu Saidu (Niger) and Yahaya
Umah Daudu (Nasarawa).
The swearing-in ceremony took
place at the Council Chamber, State House, in Abuja on Monday.
While swearing them in, President
Buhari noted that he was “particularly delighted that the ICPC law under which
you will operate is robust enough to assist government to sanitise the public
sector in service delivery, public procurement, diversion of public revenue,
deliberate misuse of public funds, and so on.”
Speaking at the event on Monday,
the new chairman swore to “eschew, expose and fight corruption” in Nigeria.
He also said that he was
encouraged by “the unquestionable, unshakeable and unequivocal stand of Mr.
President against corruption, which indicated a very strong political will to
fight corruption”.
He promised the president that
the new board members would not disappoint the nation in their assignment.
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Yeah right, in the dying minutes of your tenure.
ReplyDeleteBy His special grace you will return to presidential sit to brew all these young brain to correct the anomalies in our society and also to be a legacy for more youths. So that the work you start will end there when you leave coming 2023.
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