Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the
house of representatives, has named heads of the house standing committees.
This is even as 13 additional
committees have been set up, increasing the number from 96 to 109.
The setting up of the committees
follows the adoption of the report by an ad-hoc committee reviewing the house
standing order during plenary on Thursday.
The vice-chairmen of the various
committees were also named while ad hoc and investigative panels were set up as
well.
GBAJA’S ALLIES TAKE THE LEAD
A good number of those heading
prominent committees are known allies of the speaker including Muktar Aliyu
from Borno state who is the chairman of the appropriation committee and James
Faleke from Lagos state who is the chairman of finance committee.
Abubakar Fulata is the new
chairman of rules and business committee while Wole Oke is the chairman of the
committee on public accounts.
Linda Ikpeazu heads committee on
maritime while Tunji Ojo emerged is the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC) committee.
Others are Abdulrazak Namdas who
is in charge of the committee on army and Babajimi Benson heading that of
defence.
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