The Senate on Wednesday confirmed all 21 nominees for federal commissioners of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, earlier submitted by President Bola Tinubu.
The confirmation was sequel to the presentation and consideration of the report of the joint Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs and Finance during the plenary.
The nominees include Mrs Linda Oti representing (Abia), Akpan Effiong (Akwa-Ibom), Enefe Ekene (Anambra), Prof. Steve Ugah (Benue), Eyo Whiley (Cross River), Aruviere Egharhevwe (Delta), Nduka Awuregu (Ebonyi), Victor Eboigbe (Edo), Wumi Ogunlola (Ekiti), Ozo Obodougo (Enugu), Mohammed Usman (Gombe), Alhaji Kabir Mashi (Katsina) and Adamu Fanda (Kano).
Others are Prof. Olusegun Wright (Lagos), Aliyu Al-Makura Abdulkadir (Nasarawa), Bako Shettima (Niger), Amosun Akintayo (Ogun), Dr Nathaniel Adojutelegan (Ondo), Saad Ibrahim (Plateau), Modu Juluri (Yobe) and Bello Garba (Zamfara).
Presenting the report, the chairman of the Senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi (PDP, Kebbi North), said that the Senate had, at its plenary sitting of Tuesday, September 24, considered President Tinubu’s request for the confirmation of the nominees for RMAFC.
“From the documents made available to the committees, the nominees satisfied the requirements for appointment in the public service and therefore proper and fit to serve as federal commissioners in RMAFC,” he said.
Consequently, the appointments of all the nominees were confirmed after the lawmakers dissolved into the Committee of the Whole to consider the report.
In his remarks, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, urged the new commissioners to give their best in the job ahead of them, adding that they should be good ambassadors of their states and the country in general.
