The Presidency on Sunday said it is currently 'cleaning up' the list of Board appointment made in 2017 to be satisfied that the appointees met the requirements stipulated by the Acts establishing the agencies and parastatals. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu made this known in a chat with Dailytrust.
He noted that some Ministries, Department and Agencies not captured in the earlier appointment would be captured this time, stressing that the fresh list would be released before the end of this month. He also disclosed that the exercise is being carried out by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
“So far, they have cleaned up the list of 11 ministries, departments and parastatals of government, including those under the Office of the Vice President and the Office of the SGF. Between today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday), the SGF will clean up the remaining.
Once this list is cleaned—because some (appointees) are dead—once the SGF is satisfied that the requirements of the laws establishing those agencies are met by the appointees, who have been put forward, they (SGF Office) will release to the ministries to go and inaugurate. There are some ministries that are not covered by the earlier release. Those ones will also be completed. The SGF is working to ensure that the entire board processes are completed by the end of this month.”
Speaking on the details of the cleaning up exercise, She said;
"When the list was released, there was an outrage. The list will be vetted to make sure that the requirement of the law is met, because the law would say appoint so, so and so person of this kind of background, representation of so, so and so number of women, civil society so that the requirement of the law is met as far as the Acts establishing those agencies are concerned.”
