PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase as the new Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC).
The event took place on Wednesday, March 29, at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, in Abuja.
Arase was inaugurated two months after the Senate confirmed him as the Chairman of the Police Service Commission following the approval of the President.
Arase, who was born in 1956, served as the 18th Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force between April 2015 and 21 June 2016.
He has served in different capacities as head of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau.
Present during Wednesday’s inauguration are President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari and other members of the Federal Executive Council.
Also on Wednesday, the President inaugurated five board members of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).
The members of the Bureau inaugurated are selected across five geopolitical zones.
The newly inaugurated members include Juwaria Badamasi and Zephaniah Bulus representing North-Central from Kogi and Nasarawa states; Murtala Kankia, from Katsina, representing North-West; Farouk Umar from Yobe representing North-East; and Taofeek Abdulsalam from Ondo, representing South-West.
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