President Bola Tinubu has written the Senate seeking for the screening and subsequent confirmation of the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and the Service Chiefs.
The President’s request was contained in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday.
Sen. Akpabio, who read the letter on Tuesday’s Plenary, said that the request was in line with the Act establishing the Armed Forces.
Recall that President Tinubu had, last month, appointed Maj.-Gen. Christopher Musa as the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and Maj.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja as the chief of Army Staff (COAS).
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The President also appointed Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla as the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) and Air Vice Marshal Hassan Abubakar as the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS). He also named Maj.-Gen. Emmanuel Undiandeye appointed the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI).
He urged the Red Chamber to consider his request expeditiously.
The Senate President, after reading the letter, referred the request to the Committee of the Whole as there was no Standing Committee on Armed Forces, just as this means that the Service Chiefs would be screened on the floor of the Senate, not at the Committee level.
