Reps moves to scrap ‘irrelevant agencies’ of gov’t, constitutes Ad-hoc Committee

The House of Representatives,on Wednesday, probe overlapping duties, among 1,484 agencies, departments, parastatals and boards of the Federal Government established to perform sundry duties.

It resolved to investigate such duplications within six weeks by setting up an ad-hoc committee to handle the assignment.

The resolution came from a motion on notice moved by the Chief Whip, Hon. Mohammed Tahir Monguno.

He noted that considering the huge budgetary allocations made to these bodies annually, the investigation should unearth the relevance of some of them and possibly recommend merging a good number for better productivity and results.