FEC approves merging, subsuming, scraping of MDAs
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved the merging, subsuming, scraping, and relocation of some parastatals and agencies in line with the recommendations in the Steve Oronsaye White Paper.
Briefing State House correspondents on the decision, the Special Adviser to the President on Policy Co-ordination, Hajia Hadiza Usman, said the objective was to reduce cost of governance.
The affected establishments are the National Salaries, Income and wages Commission to be subsumed under Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission. The National Assembly will need to amend the constitution as RMAFC was established by the constitution.
Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission will be merged with Bureau of Public Enterprise and be rechristened as `Public Enterprises and Infrastructural Concession Commission.
National Human Rights Commission to swallow Public Complaints Commission. Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate(PTAD) to be scrapped and functions to be taken over by Federal Ministry of Finance and National Commission for Refugees to be fused to become National Emergency and Refugee Management Commission.
Border Communities Development Agency to become a department under National Boundary Commission NACA and NCDC to be merged. SERVICOM to become a department under the Bureau for Public Service Reform(BPSR). NALDA to return to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.
Federal Ministry of Science to supervise a new agency that combines NCAM, NASENI and PRODA National Commission for Museums and Monuments and National Gallery of Arts to become one entity that will be known as National Commission for Museums, Monuments and Gallery of Arts.
National Theatre to be merged with National Troupe. Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa and Directorate of Technical Aid Corp to be merged under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nigerians in Diaspora Commission to become an agency under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Federal Radio Corporation and Voice of Nigeria to be one entity to be known as Federal Broadcasting Corporation of Nigeria. National Biotechnology Development Agency(NABDA) and National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology to be emerged into an agency known as National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency(NBRDA).
National Institute for Leather Science Technology and National Institute for Chemical Technology to become one agency. Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency and National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development to become one agency.
The National Metallurgical Development Centre and National Metallurgical Training Institute will be merged. National Institute for Trypanosomiasis to be subsumed under Institute of Veterinary Research in Vom, Jos.
The Special Adviser to the President on Policy Co-ordination Usman, said the President had constituted a committee to work within 12 weeks to produce the necessary restructuring and legislative amendments to legalise the process.
Reporting by Abdullah Bello
