Dogara to reduce committee to save cost


The House of Representatives speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has started the process to reduce the number of standing committees in the legislature in order to streamline operational cost.

The number of standing committees in the House, which presently stands at 91, is to be trimmed to 75 in the aftermath of the cost-saving restructuring.

A source familiar with the process said, “I think at the end of the whole thing, we may have like 75 standing committees. At least I’m sure the media and public affairs may be merged with information and national orientation.”

Some other committees likely to be merged are the finance and appropriation committees; the committees on Army, Air force and Navy may be merged with defence, while the committee on special duties is likely to be joined with environment.

The committee on industries may be joined with the committee on commerce while works may be merged with housing and urban development, it was gathered.
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Speaking on the planned restructuring of the committees, Chairman of the House Ad hoc Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Sani Zoro (APC, Jigawa), said in Abuja at the weekend that the reduction in the number of committees was in conformity with the agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to bring down the cost of governance.

Explaining why the speaker could not constitute the committees before the House proceeded on annual recess last Thursday, Zoro said: “I can tell you that the speaker is trimming down the standing committees of the House to rhyme with the new thinking (of the Buhari administration).”

Zoro said the process of realigning the committees will be concluded in the next few weeks to pave the way for the constitution of the leadership of the committees by the Committee on Selection, which is headed by the speaker.
Source: www.today.ng/news/

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