Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has named other ministries President Bola Tinubu should scrap.
This is as the group hailed him for undertaking the decsion to reform his cabinet.
HURIWA said the President must be bold enough to drop the many ‘dead woods’ in the system such as the two ministers in the youth development ministry, amongst many others.
The group, however, applauded the President for attempting to prune down the expanded federal cabinet, saying it may lead to a reduction in the costs of governance.
HURIWA stated that “a piecemeal approach to overhauling the largely dysfunctional and unwieldy Federal Executive cabinet is not what a nation that has almost economically crumbled to the ground and bleeding profusely needs but what the President should do immediately is to scale down the cabinet to just 36 ministers to be made up of credible Nigerian experts, technocrat and policy makers”.
The civil Rights group suggested that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation should be scrapped and the roles assigned to the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Wealth Creation.
It also called for the abolition of the Ministry of Women Affairs and in its place a Ministry for Children and Family Affairs should be created.
DAILY POST reports that the Federal Executive Council, FEC, scrapped the Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of Sports Development on Wednesday.
The FEC also approved the merger of the Ministry of Tourism with the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy.
HURIWA noted that “the cabinet rejig is better late as it is now than never, but stated that whatever is worth doing should be done excellently so the good people of Nigeria can begin to feel the impacts of governance and so that good governance can have the fighting chance of berthing in Nigeria which is now clouded by mass hunger, unemployment, dejection, mass deprivation, organised crimes and deeply rooted corruption in the government agencies supervised by largely laissez-faire cabinet level ministers who are busy pursuing their selfish pecuniary objectives”.
