{"id":17660,"date":"2017-03-27T11:31:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17660"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:56:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:56:46","slug":"wash-pam-mr-john","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/wash-pam-mr-john\/","title":{"rendered":"WASH-PAM, John"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President of the Senate; born on October 22, 1940 in Foron, Barkin Ladi L.G.A., Plateau State;Education: Primary Schools in Heipang, Roop, Gyel Riyom and Foron; Gindiri Boys&#8217; Secondary School 1956-60; King&#8217;s College, Lagos (D.S.C.) 1961-62; and Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, 19631966. Qualification: B. A. (Honours) International Affairs; speaks Birom, Hausa, English and French. Publica tions: &#8220;Customary Land Tenure Sys tem in Northern Nigeria,&#8221;(co-author), 1965 and &#8220;South Africa&#8217;s Relations with Africa&#8221; (a Thesis paper) 1966. Career: worked in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, Lagos (Clerical Officer) Decem ber 1962 -September, 1963;as Assis tant Secretary (Political Affairs Mili tary Governor&#8217;s Office, Kaduna, 19661967;and as Secreatryto various Nor thern Government Committees and organizations including the following: Northern Leaders ofThought Meetings; Northern Consultative Committee; Committee on Provincial Authorities; Meetings of Northern Emirs and Chiefsand Northern Self-Help Committee; a career diplomat: Office of the Nige ria High Commission, Freetown, Sierra Leone: 1968-69; worked in the Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos 1969-70; Ministry of Transport 19701971, Statutory Corporations&#8217; Service Commission, Lagos, 1971-72; Ministry of Mines and Power, Lagos 1972; and Nigerian Industrial Development Bank, Lagos 1972-75; member Barakin Ladi Local Government Council, Plateau State 1976-79; member Con stituent Assembly, Lagos 1977-78 elected to the Senateand subsequantly made Deputy President of the Senate, 1979; Married with children. Hobbies: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,219,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17660","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-civil-service","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17660"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}