Undertake Comprehensive Reforms of Cabinet to Uproot Many Dead Woods: HURIWA tells Tinubu

Undertake Comprehensive Reforms of Cabinet to Uproot Many Dead Woods: HURIWA tells Tinubu

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the president Bola Ahmed Tinubu to undertake bold, decisive and comprehensive reforms of his massive cabinet to drop the many dead woods in the system.

 

Applauding the President for attempting to prune down the expanded federal cabinet which the group say may lead to a reduction in the costs of governance, the organisation however stated that the President should scale down the cabinet to 36 credible Nigerian experts, technocrat and policy makers who should be given a specific timeline to turn around the severely sick nation’s economic outlooks and bring succour to millions of absolutely poor households.

 

The civil Rights group in a statement by its national coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko suggested that the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation should be scrapped and the roles assigned to the Ministry of Labour, Employment and wealth creation.

The Rights group also called for the abolition of the Ministry of women affairs but in its place another ministry for children and family affairs should be created.

 

HURIWA recalled that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday scrapped the Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of Sports Development.

 

“There will now be a ministry of regional development to oversee all the regional development commissions, such as Niger Delta Development Commission, North West Development Commission, South West Development Commission, North East Development Commission.

 

“The National Sports Commission will take over the role of the Ministry of Sports, Mr Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, said in a statement.

 

He said the FEC also approved the merger of the Ministry of Tourism with the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy.

 

“The decisions were taken today at the meeting of Federal Executive Council in Abuja,” said the statement.

 

HURIWA whilst asserting that the cabinet rejig is better late as it is now than never, but stated that whatever is worth doing should be done excellently so the good people of Nigeria can begin to feel the impacts of governance and so that good governance can have the fighting chance of berthing in Nigeria which is now clouded by mass hunger, unemployment, dejection, mass deprivation, organised crimes and deeply rooted corruption in the government agencies supervised by largely laissez-faire cabinet level ministers who are busy pursuing their selfish pecuniary objectives.

 

 

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