FG sets up white paper committee to review MDAs created after 2014

The Federal government on Friday, inaugurated the white Paper Committee to review new Parastatals, Agencies and Commissions created since 2014.

The MDAs affected are those created after the submission of the Report on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Agencies and Commissions.

Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, while inaugurating the committee, expressed concerns over the increasing cost of governance especially with revenue challenges in the country

The government had as part of efforts to halt the revenue drift, constituted a committee on the Restructuring and Rationalization of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies on August 18, 2011 chaired by the former Head of Service, Steve Orosanye.

The committee submitted its report on April 16, 2012 with various recommendations such as abolition, reduction, merger and reversion of some of the Agencies to Departments in Ministries.

White Paper on the report was issued in March,2014 followed by an implementation Committee that was inaugurated in May, 2014.

The committee on the white paper had rejected most of the recommendations, and merely noted an equally greater number. Again, even those accepted were not implemented.

Mustapha disclosed that the “inability to implement the report of the Committee on Restructuring and Rationalization of Federal Government Parastatals, Agencies and Commission is costing government highly.