Plateau Assembly Screens Commissioner Nominees

The Plateau State House of Assembly has screened four nominees for appointment as members of the State Judicial Service Commission.

In a letter sent by Governor Jonah to the Speaker, Jang had implored the Assembly to screen the nominees to ascertain their suitability as members of the Commission.

The nominees include Mrs Salama Mamven, Messrs Sunday Panwal, Samuel Gyang and Augustine Azi Jang.

When the nominees appeared for the screening, the legislators drilled them with relevant questions that bother on how they intended to facilitate the quick dispensation of justice.

Meanwhile, the Assembly resolved the lingering issue surrounding the non- appointment of principal officers for the minority parties in the House.

The Assembly has been without Minority Leader and Minority Whip because the minority parties never agreed on which of them occupied the two vacant offices.

Before now, Wokdung Abass of the Labour Party (LP) was elected as the Minority Leader and the party had written the House that it reserved the right to occupy the position of the Minority Whip.

The only member elected on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Sambo Gondina had objected to it.

In resolving the issue, the Speaker Mr. John Clark had said that it was fair that the ACN which was also a minority party in the Assembly had a position too.

After so much debate, the legislators resolved that as a minority party, the ACN had the right to occupy an office. The Speaker thereafter ruled that Gondina be made the Minority Whip.