The Senate on Tuesday passed for second reading, a bill to establish the Armed Forces Service Commission.
The legislation mandates the proposed agency to ensure that the President strictly adheres to the Federal Character Commission principles in the appointment of service chiefs.
If passed into law by both chambers and assented to by the President, the current agitation for due process in such appointments would become a thing of the past. In his lead debate on Tuesday, the sponsor of the Armed Forces Service Commission Bill, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe said the bill, pursuant to Section 219 of the 1999 constitution as amended, conferred some powers on the National Assembly.
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