Reps begin process to scrap, merge MDAs

The House of Representatives has commenced the process of scrapping and merging ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government, with its Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Duplication of Functions of Agencies of the Federal Government commencing the move to reduce the cost of governance and ensure efficiency.

The committee has consequently asked the MDAs to justify why they should remain in existence and as individual entities.

At its inaugural investigative hearing in Abuja on Tuesday, the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, the National Council for Arts and Culture, the National Gallery of Art and the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation appeared before the committee.

The Director-General, NCAC, Otunba Segun Runsewe, while being grilled by the committee, called for more powers to regulate reality programmes such as the Big Brother Nigeria. He also recalled how he went after popular cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popular known as Bobrisky. Punch