Section 2: Appointment, qualifications and tenure of office of members.

(1) The members of the Commission shall be appointed by the President and shall consist of four full-time Commissioners, one of whom
shall be designated as the Chairman, subject to confirmation of such appointment by the Senate.
(2) The Chairman shall be the Chief Executive and Accounting Officer of the Commission.
(3) The persons appointed to be full-time Commissioners under subsection (1) shall, except as already provided therein, be persons appearing to the Senate to be suitably qualified by—
(a) holding of a high judicial office;
(b) experience as a legal practitioner of not less than fifteen years standing ; or
(c) being an eminent scholar in law.
(4) A person who holds high judicial office may be appointed as a Commissioner without relinquishing that office, but shall not, unless otherwise provided by the terms of his appointment, be required to perform his duties as the holder of that office while he remains a member of the Commission and such appointment shall not affect the tenure of that judicial office or the rank, title, status, precedence and, except where this is less than as prescribed in subsection (6), salary or allowances or other rights and privileges as the holder of that judicial office and, accordingly, the service as a member of the Commission shall be taken to be service as the holder of that judicial office.
(5) Subject to subsection (6), a person appointed as a Commissioner shall hold office for five years and shall be eligible for reappointment for one further period of five years.
(6) Subject to the provisions of subsection (4), a person holding the office to which this section applies may only be removed from that office by the President acting on an address supported by two-thirds majority of the
Senate praying that he or she may be so removed for inability to discharge the functions of the office whether arising from infirmity of mind or body or any other cause or for misconduct.
(7) There shall be paid to every Commissioner such salaries and allowances as the President may direct : Provided that the salary and allowances of the Chairman shall not be less than such as are paid to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
(8) Except in the case of persons holding high judicial office, the Chairman and the full-time Commissioners shall not while holding office as Commissioners hold any other offices of emolument either in the public service
or in any other service whatsoever.