By Sunday Lawan, Lafia

The Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly,Rt.Hon.Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi, has announced 22 House standing committee chairmen and their members to pilot the affairs of the House.

Abdullahi while announcing the names of the House standing committee at the floor of the House on Monday in Lafia charged them to live above board while discharging their duties.

“The following are House various committee chairmen-,Rules and Business to be chaired by Hon Tanko Tunga,the Majority Leader of the House,Hon Danladi Jatau,the Minority Leader of the House is to chair Public Complaints and Petitions, Works and Transport is to be chaired by Hon Abdullazeez Danladi and Education,Science and Technology is to be chaired by Hon Daniel Ogazi.

“Public Accounts committee ,the chairman is Hon.Abdullahi Angibi, Finance  and Appropriation committee chairman is Hon Aliyu Dogara and the chairman,Local Government committee is Hon Mohammed Alkali, Lands and Survey committee is to be chaired by Hon David Maiyaki.

“Others are Hon Mohammed Muluku is the chairman,House committee on Planning, Budget and SDGs, Hon Mohammed Bello is the chairman, House committee on Capital Market/Commerce and Industry and House committee on Youths and Sports is to be chaired by Musa Iyimoga,”he said.

The speaker also announced Hon Usman Shafa as chairman,House committee on Health, Hon Ali Nana, chairman,House committee on Public Service and Pilgrims while Women Affairs committee is to be chaired by Hon Samuel Tsebe.

“Also Hon Abel Bala is the Chairman, House Welfare committee, Hon Mohammed Okpoku is the chairman,House committee on NASIEC,Multilateral Cooperative and Community Development, Hon Mohammed Omadefu is the Chairman, House committee on Information.

“Hon Zhekaba Iliya is to chair Housing and Environment committee ,Hon Ibrahim Akwe is the chairman, House committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.

“The Committee on Water Resources and Rural Development is to be chaired by Hon Suleiman Adamu, Hon Suleiman Yakubu is to chair Urban and Regional Planning(NUDB) committee  and Hon John Osewu is the chairman, Judiciary committee,”he added

Abdullahi further announced Hon Nehemiah Dandaura, the Deputy speaker of the House as the chairman,Project monitoring.

The speaker also urged them not to compromised while performing their committee oversight function in the interest of peace and development.

According to him, we have been sworn in for three months now and hence the need for the constitution of House standing committees to pilot the affairs of the House.

The speaker wished them well while urging them to start preparing for oversight functions  in order to assess the level of 2019 budget performance of the various Ministries/Agencies and Departments(MDAs).