Key appointments into boards of ministries, departments
and agencies (MDAs) have been held back because of a
major restructuring of the executive arm of the
government, the Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu,
has said.
“A lot of people had expected jobs by way of key
appointments in boards, ministries and parastatals. That
has been held back by the fact that the government and
the president have promised a major restructuring of the
executive. You know he has reduced the ministries to
about 24 from 42. That will not go without concomitant
challenges on the existing parastatals and agencies which
obviously have to be modified to fit into shape and fix
into the existing ministerial structure,” Malam Shehu told
newsmen in Abuja at the weekend.
He said with the passage of the budget and the
subsequent endorsement by President Muhammadu
Buhari, Nigerians would begin to feel the positive impact
of government’s programmes and activities as money
would be released into the economy.
On the purported secret recruitments in federal
government agencies, he urged Nigerians to wait for the
outcome of the investigation launched into the issue by
the National Assembly.
He, said, “I have been approached by a number of people
who say can you give me a note to so so, so agency?
A lot is happening in this country and I keep saying that
Buhari’s government is not a government of notes. I
guess that whoever is found doing that would get himself
in trouble,” he said.
Daily Trust
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