President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Ambassador Desmond Akawor to serve as a Federal Commissioner of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), pending the confirmation of the Senate.
The new RMAFC Federal Commissioner, who represents Rivers State, is being appointed following the tragic demise of the immediate past RMAFC Federal Commissioner from Rivers State, Hon. Asondu Wenah Temple earlier this month.
Ambassador Akawor is a decorated public servant who has served the nation as Nigeria’s Ambassador to South Korea; Minister of State of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); Sole Administrator of the Greater Port Harcourt Development Authority; CEO, Niger Delta River Basin Development Authority, and Executive Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (Engineering & Technical Services).
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The President tasked the new Federal Commissioner to deploy his robust experience across tiers of government toward the comprehensive reformation of processes that will ensure the most efficient and productive utilization of allocations to all three tiers of government in Nigeria.
Also, Tinubu appointed Hon. E. J. Agbonayinma as the acting chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau.
The president in a letter to Hon. Agbonayinma signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume asked Barrister Kankia Aliyu, a board member of the Bureau to immediately hand over the affairs of the Code of Conduct Bureau to the most senior board member.
The appointment takes immediate effect from Thursday 23rd November.
As at the time of filling this story, it was gathered that the Acting Chairman was holding a meeting with the senior staff of the Bureau.
