How Tinubu Plans To Fill 2,000 Boards’ Vacancies

President Bola Tinubu is set to fill no fewer than 2,000 vacant positions in boards of over 153 agencies, parastatals,  institutions, and government-owned companies using mostly members of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The move to compensate party members with board positions, GWG.ng gathered will allow the president to fill strategic positions in governments with technocrats and as such achieve his policy of boosting governance without being distracted by politics.

The vacancies in the boards came after President Tinubu on Monday dissolved boards of Federal Government parastatals and agencies.

The dissolved boards were among the 209 constituted by former President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2017.

A statement by the Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Willie Bassey, said only boards of commissions and councils listed in the third schedule, part one section 153 (i) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria were excluded from the president’s directive.

The Nigeria Judicial Council, Code of Conduct Bureau; Council of State; Federal Character Commission; Federal Civil Service Commission; Independent National Electoral Commission; National Population Commission; Police Service Commission; and Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission are part of the agencies excluded from the directive.

Findings by our correspondents on Wednesday, however, revealed that no fewer than 2,000 persons are expected to be appointed to over 153 boards of agencies, parastatals, commissions, departments, and others by President Tinubu.

Notable among them are the North-East Development Commission with 12 vacant board slots, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission with seven board seats; Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, seven; Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, 21; Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, 12; National Universities Commission, 21 and Transmission Commission of Nigeria, 14; National Health Insurance Authority,12

Others include the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, 7; Nigerian Meteorological Agency, seven; Nigerian College of Aviation Technology,8; Nigerian Police Trust Fund, 8; Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency,10; Federal Institute of Industrial Research, 11 and National Centre for Technology Management, 11.

Also on the list are the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute, 11; Nigerian Customs Service, 11; National Pension Commission, 17; National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons, 11; National Identity Management Commission, 19; West Africa Examination Council, 8; Niger Delta Development Commission, 13; National Institute of Sports,12; Nigeria Deposit Insurance Company,12; National Bureau of Statistics,15; Federal Inland Revenue Services, 15; Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, 8 and Nigerian Airspace Management Agency,7, among others.

Though the total number of vacant board slots that would be filled could not be confirmed due to a lack of credible information about dozens of agencies and commissions many of which had no website, findings indicated that a federal board had an average of eight members, while some agencies had as many as 14 board positions.

The previous administration engaged in last-minute appointments to some boards.

Buhari had constituted several boards of agencies and parastatals close to his handover date which was criticised by observers.

Four days before he handed over to Tinubu, Buhari approved the appointment of Garzali Abubakar as the Executive Secretary of the National Agricultural Development Fund, but it is not certain if the appointment and some other boards filled in the last minute by the former administration would be affected by the move.

Source: The Punch

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