29th March, 2023
President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in Dr. Solomon Arase, a former Inspector-General of Police, as the new chairman of the Service Commission.
Arase took his oath of office on Wednesday morning in the council chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
This comes two months after the Senate confirmed him as PSC chairperson.
Buhari had forwarded Arase’s name to the Senate in January, asking the upper legislative chamber to confirm him in accordance with sections 153 (1) and 154 (1) of the amended constitution.
Arase, 65, retired in 2016 after serving as the 18th indigenous Inspector-General of Police (from April 2015 to June 2016) and in various capacities, including as head of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau, the Nigerian police’s primary intelligence-gathering unit.
In addition, the president swore in five members of the Code of Conduct Bureau’s board of directors.
They include Murtala Kankia (Katsina State, North-West); Zephaniah Bulus (Nasarawa State, North Central); Farouk Umar (Yobe State, North East); Taofeek Abdulsalam (Ondo State, South West); and Prof. Juwaria Badamasi (Kogi State, North Central).