Senate Confirms Odion, Rabiu As FCCPC Executive Commissioners

The Senate, connected Wednesday, confirmed the information of Mr. Louis Odion, a erstwhile Senior Technical Assistant connected Media to ex-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, arsenic Executive Commissioner (Operations) of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC).

Also confirmed was Hajia Ummusalma Isyaka Rabiu for assignment arsenic Executive Commissioner (Corporate Services) of the FCCPC.

The confirmation followed the information and adoption of the study of the Senate Committee connected Trade and Investment, chaired by Senator Umar Sadiq.

President Bola Tinubu had earlier forwarded the names of some nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation.

Odion, a seasoned writer and erstwhile Commissioner for Information successful Edo State, volition oversee operations astatine the commission, portion Ummusalma Isiyaka Rabiu from Kano State volition grip firm services.

Presenting the committee’s report, Senator Sadiq said the nominees were recovered competent and qualified, having demonstrated “integrity, professionalism, and a dependable knowing of user extortion and marketplace regulation.”

He added that their appointments aligned with the administration’s extremity of promoting just contention and protecting user rights successful Nigeria’s increasing integer and commercialized sectors.

The Senate adopted the committee’s study and confirmed some nominees done a unanimous dependable vote.

In a related development, the Senate Committee connected Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, chaired by Senator Adeniyi Adegbonmire, besides presented its study connected the screening of Professor Yusuf Mohammad arsenic Commissioner of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission (NLRC), representing the North-East geopolitical zone.

Adegbonmire noted that the nominee met each law requirements and possessed the acquisition needed to lend to the ongoing betterment of Nigeria’s ineligible framework.

He said, “The committee recovered Professor Yusuf Mohammad to beryllium eminently qualified and of proven integrity. His assignment volition fortify the capableness of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission to reappraisal outdated statutes and harmonise them with existent realities.”

The enclosure subsequently approved his information aft a question for confirmation was moved and adopted without objection.