Sack ‘Ghost’ Ministers To Cut Cost Of Governance, Group Mounts Pressure On Tinubu

Civil right advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) has tasked President Bola Tinubu to sack those it described as ‘ghost ministers’ in his cabinet who it claimed have been largely inactive and unseen as a way of cutting down the estimated N23.4 billion needed to maintain the ministers.

HURIWA in a statement made available to GWG.ng lamented that out of the over 45 ministers in the Federal cabinet that  only less than twenty ministers can be proven to have been attending to their duties. The group said that the rest of the bunch obviously operate like ‘ghost ministers’ with zero impacts to the generality of the citizens of Nigeria and the Tinubu administration.

Besides, HURIWA has called on the President to, in the spirit of the high costs of living of most Nigerians, and in realisation that over 133 million Nigerian households are multidimensionally poor, the need to cut down on the extremely high cost of running the Federal government, has become imperative.

HURIWA said the government cannot continue to remain adamant and insensitive to the clarion calls for downsizing of the Federal cabinet and cut down the cost of governance but instead has kept an over-bloated cabinet that could cost Nigeria a whooping N23.4 billion as a year salaries for the huge bureaucracy.

The figure was based on the recommended salaries and allowances for ministers and commissioners by the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission.

HURIWA said it was not a good record that President Tinubu set for himself in appointing the highest number of ministerial appointees in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic (1999 to date) with 48, which experts said would likely worsen the high governance costs.

Besides the call for the sack of the ghost ministers from the Tinubu government, HURIWA particularly mentioned two ministers it claimed have not attended any of the meetings of the Federal Executive Council.

HURIWA in the media statement by the National Coordinator also stated that most of these ministers like the two young ones posted to the ministry of youths have hardly been seen by Nigerians neither have these and many other ‘hidden ministers’ been sighted by the citizens in their line of duty.

“HURIWA is by this media intervention urging the president to carry out a quick cabinet shake up to drop the ‘ghosts’ that now populate his cabinet and then set up a very lean government that wouldn’t continued to be the money guzzling administration that it is at the moment. The way to go is for the administration to be downsized to a very manageable extent so service delivery can be optimised and resources conserved and invested in human capital development and into other critical areas of governance such as education, infrastructures and economic empowerment of the severely impoverished 133 million multidimensionally poor households in Nigeria.”

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