Reps To Name Committee Chairmen, Give Official Vehicles To Lawmakers

The House of Representatives, like the Senate, will named standing committees and their chairmen on Thursday.

The Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, will also give members their official cars once the standing committees were constituted, The PUNCH reports.

Abbas had two days after his emergence as Speaker announced the constitution of seven special committees.

While announcing the leadership and membership of the transition committees at the close of plenary last Thursday, Abbas noted that they would be in place “for a period of time pending the time when we constitute proper committees.”

The Speaker explained that the ad hoc committees “will assist in the running of this House until such a time when proper committees will be constituted.”

Chairmen and members of the panels were drawn from the ruling APC and three out of the seven opposition parties in the House, namely the PDP, LP and the New Nigeria People’s Party.

The committees include Internal Security headed by Mohammed Danjuma, Selection chaired by the Speaker himself, and Media led by Buka Ibrahim.

Others are the Legislative Agenda Committee chaired by Prof Julius Ihonbvare; Rules and Business Committee led by Igariwey Iduma; Welfare Committee headed by Wale Raji; and Ethics and Privileges Committee chaired by Tunji Olawuyi.

Khadijat Buka-Abba, who heads the ad hoc committee on Media and Publicity, had on July 12 during an interactive session with journalists, lamented that she would not want to come back as the chairman when the Speaker finally unveils the standing committees.

Lawmakers in the Green chamber said they were in the dark as to who gets what.