
16/10/2025
PUBLIC COMPLAINTS COMMISSION AT 50 TODAY
The Public Complaints Commission, on whose platform we celebrate 50 years today, has its origin from the Global Ombudsman Institution which took roots from Sweden in 1809.
It gradually spread its tentacles globally, reaching Nigeria and was nationally established by the Federal Government on 16th October, 1975, through Decree 31 and later became an Act of the National Assembly, incorporated in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and further codified in CAP. P. 37, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The Commission's core mandate is to investigate and resolve both reactive and proactive cases of administrative injustice, maladministration and social disorder in the Nigerian polity.
HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY, PCC
Rt. Hon. Chief James Oche
Honourable Federal Commissioner (Benue State)
Public Complaints Commission
October 16, 2025