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Senate confirms President Buhari EFCC board nominee who ‘started school before birth’
Senate confirms President Buhari EFCC board nominee who ‘began college earlier than start’. The Nigerian senate on Tuesday October 5, confirmed the nomination of Yahaya Muhammad (Yobe State) by President Muhammadu Buhari, as a board member of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).
The Nation reported that whereas a senator representing Jigawa North East, Hassan Hadejia, stated there was a discrepancy within the sequence of Muhammad’s instructional expertise as a result of he was allegedly born on September 29, 1969 however began college at Central Main Faculty in 1968, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Monetary Crimes, Suleiman Abdu Kwari (Kaduna North) urged the Senate to substantiate Muhammad and different nominees.
Commenting on the discrepancy, Hadejia stated;
“My identify is Senator Hassan Hadejia, representing Jigawa Northeast Senatorial District. Let me deliver to the discover of the Home sure discrepancies within the report, that are contradictory, particularly on the subject of one of many nominees, Alhaji Yahaya Muhammad, on Web page 8, the place the nominee, based on report, began his main college earlier than he was born.
“There may be additionally an overlap within the sequence of his instructional expertise as a result of right here he was born on September 29, 1969 and he began his schooling at Central Main Faculty in 1968.
“Then he was in Borno Academics’ School from 1975 and 1988 whereas concurrently he was within the School of Administration Research from 1980 to 1981.
“If these are typographical errors, Mr. President, perhaps we must always have them corrected for the sake of our report.”
It was reported that the Senate didn’t resolve or search to right the discrepancies Hadejia drew his colleagues’ consideration to earlier than confirming Muhammad for appointment as EFCC board member.
George Ekungu from Cross River State was confirmed as Secretary of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, whereas Luqman Muhammed (Edo); Anumba Adaeze (Enugu); Kola Adesina (Kwara) and Yahaya Muhammad (Yobe) had been confirmed as board members of the EFCC.
