Despite a damning report submitted by the Department of State Security Services, DSS, against an Ambassadorial nominee, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor, the Senate, on Wednesday, went ahead to confirm him.
Nsofor, is a former Justice of the Court of Appeal. He was first rejected on March 13, 2017. He was rejected alongside Jacob Igbekele Daodu, from Ondo State. He also got an unfavourable report from the DSS.
Explaining the rationale behind the disqualification of Nsofor in March, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu, said the Imo nominee was too old to hold a public office.
His re-nomination was however, sent to the Senate in a letter dated 29th March, and received on April 11, 2017.
Reading the report of the Committee, on Wednesday, Senator Sunmonu, said the DSS report disqualified Justice Nsofor, because of his old age. He said the Service warned that he was unfit and incapable of discharging the demands of his office.
The Lawmaker however, added that unlike his first appearance, Justice Nsofor proved during the screening exercise, that he is fit to represent Nigeria as an Ambassador.
Ironically, the Senate also relying on a DSS report, refused to confirm Ibrahim Magu as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Similar to the report on Justice Nsofor, the DSS had advised the Senate not to confirm Magu as Chairman of the EFCC.
Also, just like Justice Nsofor, Magu’s name was submitted twice by President Muhammadu Buhari, but was nonetheless rejected twice by the Senate.
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