The Senate on Thursday at plenary approved the presidential nomination of three persons, Aliyu Mohammed, Dahiru Hassan Balami and Stanley Lawson, as members of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) board.

Senate also adjourned its plenary to Thursday July 24 when it would hold a special plenary to consider some of the pending crucial reports before it.

But effectively, the lawmakers have proceeded on their annual vacation beginning from Thursday. They will resume plenary on September 16, 2014.

Senate leader, Victor Ndoma Egba, announced this on Thursday at plenary, but said committee works would continue to enable the various committees to tidy up their work.

However, before the adjournment, the Senate considered and passed the conference committee report on Repeal and Re-Enactment of the Prisons Bill, by its Committee on Interior.

The Senate also received the report of its Committees on National Security and Intelligence, Defence and Army, Police Affairs and Interior on fact finding on the recent attacks and killings in Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau, Katsina, Zamfara, and Kaduna states.

Aliyu Mohammed was screened and approved for appointment as a member of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).

Dahiru Hassan Balami was screened and approved for appointment as a member of the Central Bank of Nigeria Monetary Policy (NMP), while Stanley Lawson was screened and approved for appointment as non- executive member of the CBN Board.

The Senate also received the reports of the committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions on sudden withdrawal of a detachment of mobile police and subsequent attack on Kizara village by the armed bandits.

It further received the report of its committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions which considered the alleged collection of N3 billion by members of Joint Committee on Establishment investigating pension administration in Nigeria.

Daily Independent