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Gbawe:
Mumu, I know precisely what I am talking about but you are too unintelligent and too much of a tele-guided robot, operating on a software written by PDP programming language call "excuses 101", to know how Political leadership, especially as required to birth an age of reform, works. Keep talking impotently and you will soon see what I am talking about which is currently above your level of intellect.

Danjuma raises concern over high cost of governance

on January 29, 2011

This true nature of the General, who is also the Chairman of PAC, created by President Jonathan to advise his government when he was made Acting President by the National Assembly, manifested penultimate week when he led members of the Council on advisory mission to Aso Rock.
This is not the first time the PAC delegation will be visiting the seat of Nigeria’s highest power; but the mission has never been so clear, it was to tell Mr. President that “the cost of doing government business in Nigeria is on the increase and it is relatively too high.” But, this was expected, essentially, since the visit was at the instance of the Council members.

[b]And, in solving this problem, Danjuma suggested that the rather too large government size, in terms of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), be immediately prune down, to reduce the rising cost of recurrent expenditure, arising from salaries, allowances and other wage bills on public servants.
PAC, in its recommendation, wants government to begin the process of merging and reducing federal ministries and other government agencies to help cut down heavily on government unnecessary spendings.
Fielding questions from State House correspondents after the meeting, Danjuma said the cut down in government agencies will help direct government spendings on infrastructural development.
The PAC chairman, who maintained that boosting the nation’s economy was paramount to the committee, however, noted that: “we understand that most of the points we raised are already being addressed by government and we have been promised that we shall have a feedback from government and even if necessary we shall be involved in finding remedies to all the issues we have raised.”[/b]
Nigeria central government has no fewer than 23 ministries aside commissions headed by ministers with over 50 departments (parastatals) and about twice this figure of agencies. These MDAs maintain pay-rolls of several thousands of unaccounted workers (ghost workers); thereby exerting so much pressure on lean government resources amidst decaying public infrastructure.
It was against this backdrop that President Olusegun Obasanjo, toward the end of his government early in 2007 reduced the number of ministries by merging some including Works, Housing, Environment, Transport, Aviation, Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development, Power, Energy and Petroleum Resources.

Jonathan: Leaner Cabinet Impossible for Now

By Ahamefula Ogbu
19 May 2011


President Goodluck Jonathan has said it is impossible to have a leaner cabinet without an amendment of the relevant sections of the 1999 Constitution which stipulate that each of the 36 states of the federation should have a representative on the Federal Executive Council.

He was responding to the suggestion of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC), who came to pay him a thank-you-visit as they wound down on their assignment.

Jonathan told his guests that much as he preferred a leaner and more efficient cabinet, such cannot be achieved at the moment, unless the 1999 Constitution was amended.

But the PAC, which is headed by Lt-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, (rtd.), however advised the President to exercise due diligence while picking members of his incoming cabinet by having an eye on integrity and high performance as “a man is known through the type of people around him”.

Inaugurated on March 4, 2010, the Danjuma committee, said there were well qualified Nigerians within the country and in the Diaspora to make the cabinet and get the expected results “that will create Nigeria of our expectations”.

Jonathan however thanked the PAC members for their quality recommendations, which he promised to use to set goals for the incoming cabinet members.

He promised that the recommendations will be handy for the in-coming officials as they would be exposed to the proposals for policy direction at a retreat he intends to organise after their appointments are made.

“Your suggestion for a smaller cabinet is excellent and I agree with you, but this cannot be achieved without constitutional amendment’.

Jonathan thanked them for offering themselves for service at a time the country needed direction and would continue to tap from their wealth of experience.

dustmalik:
Such provision doesn't exist anywhere. This is how you guys come up with lies as it best soothes you.

Gbawe:
Don't mjnd the repellent imbec1le. These elections, and the behaviour of some folks thereafter, has shown that some people hate Nigeria and want her to fail. They will just talk malevolently, insultingly and unintelligently against everything The APC government is considering even when these happen to be the right policy drive which must be implemented if Nigeria is to make progress as a nation. Of course there has to be fundamental changes to how things are done. It is either that or Nigeria fails. When the Cameron government gained power in the UK they initiated far reaching cost-cutting reforms that affected sectors that had been virtually untouched for decades !!! No one talked of any constitution or such garbage because of the consideration that in progressive countries the Dog wags the tail and not the other way round. I.e man controls the law, for his own benefit, and not the other way round.

The law and even the constitution cannot be allowed to become an impediment to a nation's progress. The reason this is so in Nigeria's case is because the PDP, since 1999, enjoyed hiding behind the constitution as the reason it can never act in Nigeria's favour whereas the truth is that the PDP, when it fully can, fails to act to secure certain fundamental changes because this will work against the profligacy and waste its members benefit from. Even GEJ called "weak" bullied the legislators when he had to. We remember our legislators saying that GEJ should reverse fuel subsidy removal because they are representatives of Nigerians who had been instructed by Nigerians to reject the unpopular policy. Did GEJ not brush them aside with ease to have his way?

I personally cannot be bothered arguing with anyone about " ccnstitutional limitations and provision" because I know those are scams the PDP has perfected since 1999. Osinbajo is a very intelligent and experienced legal mind. No? We shall see if the constitution will wag the Buhari government or whether the resolve to change Nigeria will tame the constitution excuses PDP hid behind conveniently. I have no time arguing with folks who do not understand that laws are not created to hinder man and must always remain amendable to reflect a new position and changes that will benefit society. Once again it is a case of Nigeria, because of the self-serving greed of particularly PDP leaders, acting in an aberrant manner to the extent most Nigerians now think this to be the norm and even utter the same pathetic excuses PDP used to undermine and regress Nigeria. We shall see.

Gbawe:
Don't mjnd the repellent imbec1le. These elections, and the behaviour of some folks thereafter, has shown that some people hate Nigeria and want her to fail. They will just talk malevolently, insultingly and unintelligently against everything The APC government is considering even when these happen to be the right policy drive which must be implemented if Nigeria is to make progress as a nation. Of course there has to be fundamental changes to how things are done. It is either that or Nigeria fails. When the Cameron government gained power in the UK they initiated far reaching cost-cutting reforms that affected sectors that had been virtually untouched for decades !!! No one talked of any constitution or such garbage because of the consideration that in progressive countries the Dog wags the tail and not the other way round. I.e man controls the law, for his own benefit, and not the other way round.

The law and even the constitution cannot be allowed to become an impediment to a nation's progress. The reason this is so in Nigeria's case is because the PDP, since 1999, enjoyed hiding behind the constitution as the reason it can never act in Nigeria's favour whereas the truth is that the PDP, when it fully can, fails to act to secure certain fundamental changes because this will work against the profligacy and waste its members benefit from. Even GEJ called "weak" bullied the legislators when he had to. We remember our legislators saying that GEJ should reverse fuel subsidy removal because they are representatives of Nigerians who had been instructed by Nigerians to reject the unpopular policy. Did GEJ not brush them aside with ease to have his way?

I personally cannot be bothered arguing with anyone about " ccnstitutional limitations and provision" because I know those are scams the PDP has perfected since 1999. Osinbajo is a very intelligent and experienced legal mind. No? We shall see if the constitution will wag the Buhari government or whether the resolve to change Nigeria will tame the constitution excuses PDP hid behind conveniently. I have no time arguing with folks who do not understand that laws are not created to hinder man and must always remain amendable to reflect a new position and changes that will benefit society. Once again it is a case of Nigeria, because of the self-serving greed of particularly PDP leaders, acting in an aberrant manner to the extent most Nigerians now think this to be the norm and even utter the same pathetic excuses PDP used to undermine and regress Nigeria. We shall see.

Montaque:
u just wasted spaces on this thread

abouzaid:
lai Mohammed denied the report and they still went ahead to print it while you guys are killing yourselves over it making me wonder if any of you actually read it. buhari will run ministerial business as usual in order to settle d boys. we are already repeatedly hearing talks of the no of ministers promised to the likes of tinubu while obj pushes for a minister for finance. i don't see any remarkable change occurring during this mans tenure.

omonnakoda:
We have already read it above .It is not for me to interpret

omonnakoda:
Is this from the 1999 constitution?
http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#FederalExecutive
I cannot find it !! This is the 1999 constitution
147. (1) There shall be such offices of Ministers of the Government of the Federation as may be established by the President.

(2) Any appointment to the office of Minister of the Government of the Federation shall, if the nomination of any person to such office is confirmed by the Senate, be made by the President.

(3) Any appointment under subsection (2) of this section by the President shall be in conformity with the provisions of section 14(3) of this Constitution:-



(4) Where a member of the National Assembly or of a House of Assembly is appointed as Minister of the Government of the Federation, he shall be deemed to have resigned his membership of the National Assembly or of the House of Assembly on his taking the oath of office as Minister.

(5) No person shall be appointed as a Minister of the Government of the Federation unless he is qualified for election as a member of the House of Representatives.

(6) An appointment to any of the offices aforesaid shall be deemed to have been made where no return has been received from the Senate within twenty-one working days of the receipt of nomination by the Senate.


14. (1) The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be a State based on the principles of democracy and social justice.

(2) It is hereby, accordingly, declared that:

(a) sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority;

(b) the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government: and

(c) the participation by the people in their government shall be ensured in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.

(3) The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few State or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in any of its agencies.

CFCfan:

That's why there is an urgent need for a constitutional amendment to repeal that provision. The number of ministers (and ministers of state) could be set at 30, or 5 ministers per zone.

Also, the number of ministries should be between 14-15.

Demdem:
[b]Section 147 and 148 of the constitution explains more about who and what a function of a minister is.
Am particularly interested in 148(1) that says President in his discretion MAY assign any Minister of the govt of the federation responsibility for ANY business of the Government of the federation including administration of any dept of govt.

In otherwords, that u are a minister doesnt neccesarily mean that u must head a ministry neither does it mean u must be in a ministry. If he so desires, he can decide that u head a particular department e.g NTA and still call u a minister.

148(2) provides for regular meetings with all Ministers.

It should be noted however that Jonah-daft and his vice president has a lot of Special assistants, senior special assistants, special advisers and senior special advisers that are part of the reason why this govt seems to be very bogus. These lot are a strain in the finances of the country and the laws neccesarily doesnt cater for it.

Having 36 ministers to satisfy the laws of the land (against my desire though) while infusing the duties of these assistants to be part of the duties of the ministers is a perfect way of pruning down the govt massively. above all, i trust Osinbajo will come up with something tha will be constitutionally acceptable

For instance, Jonah-daft has Minister for special duty, special adviser on special duty and the fool went ahead to create an office for the ambassador at large. what for?

One thing is certain, Buharis govt will surely be smaller than Jonah-daft bogus and inefficient govt.[/b]

Gbawe:
Don't mjnd the repellent imbec1le. These elections, and the behaviour of some folks thereafter, has shown that some people hate Nigeria and want her to fail. They will just talk malevolently, insultingly and unintelligently against everything The APC government is considering even when these happen to be the right policy drive which must be implemented if Nigeria is to make progress as a nation. Of course there has to be fundamental changes to how things are done. It is either that or Nigeria fails. When the Cameron government gained power in the UK they initiated far reaching cost-cutting reforms that affected sectors that had been virtually untouched for decades !!! No one talked of any constitution or such garbage because of the consideration that in progressive countries the Dog wags the tail and not the other way round. I.e man controls the law, for his own benefit, and not the other way round.

The law and even the constitution cannot be allowed to become an impediment to a nation's progress. The reason this is so in Nigeria's case is because the PDP, since 1999, enjoyed hiding behind the constitution as the reason it can never act in Nigeria's favour whereas the truth is that the PDP, when it fully can, fails to act to secure certain fundamental changes because this will work against the profligacy and waste its members benefit from. Even GEJ called "weak" bullied the legislators when he had to. We remember our legislators saying that GEJ should reverse fuel subsidy removal because they are representatives of Nigerians who had been instructed by Nigerians to reject the unpopular policy. Did GEJ not brush them aside with ease to have his way?

I personally cannot be bothered arguing with anyone about " ccnstitutional limitations and provision" because I know those are scams the PDP has perfected since 1999. Osinbajo is a very intelligent and experienced legal mind. No? We shall see if the constitution will wag the Buhari government or whether the resolve to change Nigeria will tame the constitution excuses PDP hid behind conveniently. I have no time arguing with folks who do not understand that laws are not created to hinder man and must always remain amendable to reflect a new position and changes that will benefit society. Once again it is a case of Nigeria, because of the self-serving greed of particularly PDP leaders, acting in an aberrant manner to the extent most Nigerians now think this to be the norm and even utter the same pathetic excuses PDP used to undermine and regress Nigeria. We shall see.

Gbawe:
Scram id1ot and stop seeking my attention. I don't post for ret.tards like you. Abeg stop quoting me and stop reading what I write. Some of you are so petty-minded. You must be a big failure in real life.

shaqhead:
Mr. let me remind u since u seem to have forgotten.
There are 250+ ETHNIC GROUPS in Nigeria; what does that tell you?

We are complainin of d humougous cost of runing such an overbloated government with ministers from evry state, you want to kill us by bringing in "ethnic groups".

You wl agree wt me that Nigerians convergence point in government is not "effective representation" but "effective government" and if cuttting down on representation will make the government effective, why not?

Nigeria is like a Solomon wt 300wives and 700 concubines.

EverestdeBliu:
Exactly what my HOD suggested yesterday during our department seminar. He should scrap some public offices which do not fiscally add to the nation's national income

High Cost Of Governance And Development In Nigeria: A Case Study Of Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration (2011-2014)

Abstract:

The study was embarked upon to examine the high cost of governance in Nigeria and its implication for national development. It focuses on the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, which has been accused of the rising cost of governance. In addition, the National Assembly, Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) have been considered to be a drain pipe in Nigeria because of the huge financial allocations they received in successive budgets to the detriment of development projects in Nigeria. The study used descriptive analysis and relied primarily on secondary sources of data collection. From empirical literature, the study identified the rising cost of governance as inimical to Nigerian socioeconomic development. [/b]In view of this, holistic recommendations have been suggested to describe the way forward for the government.



Authors: Oladayo Nathaniel Awojobi

3. Analysis Of High Cost Governance In Nigeria:

This section explains the rising cost of governance under President Goodluck Jonathan:

[b]3.1 Rising cost of governance under President Jonathan:

President Jonathan has been accused of running one of the most expensive Government in the world according to Oyishe and Eme (2013), this is justified by the hugely budgeted amounts that are allocated to feeding, refreshment and foreign trips by the Jonathan's administration. Before leaving office, [size=14pt]former President Obasanjo reduced 22 federal ministries to 16 through the merger of these ministries. President Jonathan, perhaps for political conveniences has increased the pace by creating new ones and splitting all the already merged ministries, bringing the total number of ministries to 42.[/size] Each ministry is supervised by two ministers, a substantive minister and minister of state. The effect of a bloated bureaucracy has been responsible for the high recurrent expenditure in the national budget. Giving a sectional analysis of how Nigeria's wealth is cornered by its officials . The formal minister of the Federal Capital territory, El-rufai disclosed that a "whopping N49.9 billion is used to run each of the 42 ministries, departments and agencies."

CyberTerrorist:
You are the retar.ded ediot here...So you want Osinbajo to manipulate the constitution to marginalize the SE & SS states and later the will come to this same state to explore oil they use in running the government?...You are a hopeless bastard for thinking that it gonna be possible..let us just fold our arms and watch as the drama unfolds...You people don't even know what you are dealing with..Buhari's government is government for all or this Nigeria will not accommodate us..ediot

Gbawe:
Dude you know I generally avoid you but this post is even more re.tar.ded than the usual garbage you post. When will you stop posting bitterly, insultingly and out of hate alone? Most developed nation of the world have recurrent expenditure in single digit, i, e under 10%, while for Nigeria it is condemnably above 70%. Analyst from all corners have said Nigeria can never develop properly if we do not cut waste and profligacy to boost capital spending. Buhari has said this is something he will look at seriously and act urgently to reform. Rather than support all his efforts to do this, if genuinely on nairaland for the progress of Nigeria, you can only throw insults bitterly and hatefully. What is the matter with you?

If I could I would get Seun to ban you permanently. You are a repellent nuisance And I believe you are sick and twisted. Take lessons from how many of us, very critical of GEJ, acted after he won. We pledged our support and objectively committed to supporting him. It was when GEJ began messing up, with moves such as sudden fuel subsidy removal for example, we began criticising him. Every Nigerian know that cost cutting is not only ly essential but must be done. No two ways about it. Your talk of constitution just shows you are a hateful dullard who is against the progress of Nigeria. The APC now control the upper and lower legislative houses. Buhari will show you that GEJ and the PDP were only giving excuses. The Dog wags the tail and not the other way round . Committed leaders use everything at their disposal to get things done and progress-seeking Nigerians will support Buhari to get things done and we will charge, for evil enemies of progress like you, that "get thee behind me satan". You are a devil. Plain and simple.

IbokUtoroh:
its like u r really pained.
bros tek orijin for calming sake!

kaboninc:
Thanks for the remainder.

Actually by having a representation of all ethnic groups means that each state should provide an indigent to be represented in government, at the ministerial level.

Nigeria is like Solomon, and that is our strength. Our diversity is our strength and ALL groups must be considered and factored in, for any meaningful progress to be made. In as much as you must have to cut cost, you must not put to detriment, the very fabric that binds us together as a people.

Gbawe:
I am not "really pained". What annoys me is the motivation behind the posts of some of these guys which makes them very aberrant citizens and enemies of Nigeria's progress. It is like a nation having many citizens, more than is healthy, who want their own nation to fail because of nothing other than their hatred and prejudices against others. Only a fool will pretend not to know Nigeria has been warned by analysts universally , since the PDP took over in 1999, that we can never make progress subsidizing governance cost with over 70% of our budget. It is crazy and such has to stop .

The constitution cannot be an excuse because OBJ did it and the sky did not fall. The constitution is only an excuse for one of two people. (1) Those suffering from 'Stockholm syndrome' and therefore prone to making excuses for their oppressors and jailers and (2) those who want Buhari to fail because of their prejudice against his region of origin and religion.

I know these guys already, through their past posts, and this is why I talk to them the way I do. Nothing I hate more than seeing people whose actions and utterances are driven by prejudice alone. Jonathan could not fight Boko Haram for 5 years and all manners of excuse were given yet did we not see him swing into action when faced with an election loss? We should stop doing this in Nigeria because it is highly irritating and offensive to those who are exposed and have perhaps experienced progressive societies where the right things are done to secure the right outcome that moves society forward.

Nigerians themselves, the real victim of misrule, should stop buying the excuses of leaders like GEJ and then helping those leaders continue to misrule Nigeria by being their agents of spreading those deceitful excuses as some are doing here for one of the two reasons I stated above. We should stop showing aberrant behaviour publicly and mocking Nigeria as a warped nation where people are comfortable to speak as if laws control man, to the detriment of society, and not the other way round as obtains in most nations of the world.

omonnakoda:
This is why me must never give up on any one.Long ago I had secretly believed your head was FULL of coconut water.I now confess my error and admit that there are some brains AS WELL

anonimi:
You mean the Mega clueless directionless promises he cannot fulfil
Are you aware there is a provision for one minister from each state? Will your DoroDullard Buhari create 36 ministries to fulfil these requirement or MARGINALISE some states?

Demdem:
Shattap.................do u think i have the time and luxury to be brainstorming with fools constantly?

omonnakoda:
E be like say you dey vex

IbokUtoroh:
bros it has not cometo this na, haba!
for just orijinwey i say make u take na it u write epistle as long as letter from paul to the people of ephesus?
so if i give u orijin na chapters i go see?
brosno vex o.
anonimi abeeg tk it easy, lets do our opposition on a small scale till wen jona handover to awa doroDULLY!