Senate to screen Service Chiefs on Thursday

President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, has disclosed that the newly appointed service chiefs would be screened during plenary on Thursday by 11am.

Disclosing this on Wednesday, he called on his colleague to be seated on time in order to effectively do justice to the assignment, about which President Muhammadu Buhari had written to them.

The Senate president however failed to state whether the screening would be done in either closed or open session.

Also in the course of Wednesday’s plenary, the Senate President appointed three standing committees and one ad hoc committee, adhering strictly to the rule on geopolitical spread.

The committees are Senate Services, headed by Senator Ibrahim Gobir (Sokoto East); Rules and Business, which has Senator Babajide Omoworare (Osun Central) as Chairman, and Ethics and Privileges, chaired by Samuel Anyanwu ( Imo East ).

Saraki also named Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West) as Chairman, Ad-hoc Committee on Information and Public Affairs, with Senators Eyinnaya Abaribe and Ben Bruce, among others, as members.

Meanwhile, Saraki has asked senators who are interested in serving in the 8th Senate to pick forms from the Clerk of the Senate and indicate committees which they would like to serve as soon as possible.

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