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The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (AMLS) has rejected the appointment of Babajide Salako as the board chairman of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN).

On February 15, President Bola Tinubu approved the appointment of Salako as the council’s board chairman.

Speaking in Abuja on Monday at a press conference, Casmir Ifeanyi, president of the association, said section 3 subsection 1(a) of the act setting up the council provides that the chairman must be a qualified fellow of the council with five years post qualification experience.

Ifeanyi added that the act also mandates that the chairman should be appointed by the president on the recommendation of the minister from a list of names of the fellows submitted by the council.

He noted that Salako’s appointment has not met the criteria for an appointment to the position as stated in the act.

He called on Tinubu to withdraw Salako’s appointment and nominate another qualified person to replace him.

Ifeanyi said the association was shocked “at the brazen violation of the above section of the law, without recourse to the list of names submitted by the council in compliance with the law”.

“We call on the NASS to investigate the appointment of Salako as chairman of the governing board of MLSCN,” NAN quoted him as saying.

“The message conveyed by the purported appointment is simply that laws made by the legislature and duly signed by the president can be disobeyed by highly placed government officials only to achieve private goals.”