The presidency has revealed that
it is “cleaning up” the list of board appointments in order to be satisfied
that the appointees met the requirements of the Acts establishing agencies and
parastatals.
It said this was the reason many
of the 209 board chairmen and 1,258 members on the list of appointments
released late last December had not been inaugurated.
The Senior Special Assistant to
the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, told Daily Trust that
the clean-up exercise was being anchored by the Secretary to the Government of
the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha.
Shehu said the exercise became
necessary in lieu of the outrage that trailed the inclusion of dead persons on
the list of appointments.
According to the President’s
spokeperson, the list in 11 ministries, departments and agencies, including
those in the Office of the Vice President and the Office of the SGF has been
cleaned up and is ready for inauguration.
Shehu said the SGF would by
Saturday (yesterday) clean up the list in the remaining ministries “and forward
to them (the ministries) to inaugurate at their own time.”
The presidential aide noted that
some ministries, particularly that of the Federal Capital Territory, have
started inaugurating their board appointees.
Shehu also said that ministries,
departments and agencies which were not captured in the initial list would
equally be “fixed” and be ready before the end of this month.
He said, “So far, they have
cleaned up the list of 11 ministries, departments and parastatals of
government, including those under the Office of the Vice President and the
Office of the SGF. Between today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday), the SGF will
clean up the remaining.
“Once this list is
cleaned—because some (appointees) are dead—once the SGF is satisfied that the
requirements of the laws establishing those agencies are met by the appointees,
who have been put forward, they (SGF Office) will release to the ministries to
go and inaugurate.
“There are some ministries that
are not covered by the earlier release. Those ones will also be completed. The
SGF is working to ensure that the entire board processes are completed by the
end of this month.”
When asked to give an insight
into the details of the cleaning up exercise, Shehu added, “When the list was
released, there was an outrage.
“The list will be vetted to make
sure that the requirement of the law is met, because the law would say appoint
so, so and so person of this kind of background, representation of so, so and
so number of women, civil society so that the requirement of the law is met as
far as the Acts establishing those agencies are concerned.”
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