A house of representatives committee is considering
recommending the merging of the Administrative State College of Nigeria (ASCON)
and the Public Service Institute of Nigeria (PSIN).
At its sitting on Wednesday, Victor Danzaria, chairman of
the ad hoc committee investigating the duplication of functions by ministries,
departments and agencies, said ASCON and PSIN perform similar functions.
The lawmaker said the government should not waste funds
maintaining agencies that have similar responsibilities.
“This ad hoc committee is looking at the productivity and the service delivery of these agencies,” he said.
“Another mandate of
this committee is to ascertain the root cause analysis of the regular
bickering, making established agencies of government keep spending money.
“These agencies of government don’t have an enabling act and
yet the government still spends money on them. It is tough for this country to
keep these agencies while we keep borrowing money to maintain them.
“Another mandate is to establish areas of mergers, synergies
and justification of existence. The truth is even though you may have your
enabling act, this ad hoc committee would determine whether it should be
repealed, amended or taken away.
“The justification of
the existence of your agencies — we have to hear from you. If the service
delivery is not there and Nigeria is not gaining from the agency, why are they
existing? We cannot continue to keep borrowing money to maintain most of these agencies
that we feel need to be merged or taken away.”
Cecilia Gayya, director-general of ASCON, admitted that her
agency shares similar functions with PSIN in areas such as training,
consultancy and research.
Gayya, however, said ASCON has an act, while PSIN does not,
adding that the overlapping function is in practice not in law.
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