FG lists MDAs to be merged, scrapped

Hajiya Hadiza Bala-Usman, Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, made this known on Monday at the end of the FEC meeting in Abuja.

She said that decision was based on the Steve Oronsaye Report on civil service reform of 2014.

“For agencies that are required to be merged: The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria is to be merged with the Voice of Nigeria; National Commission for Museum and monuments to  merged with the National Gallery of Acts; National Theatre to be merged with National Troop of Nigeria; the National metrological Development Centre to be merged with the National metrological Training Institute.

‘’National Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS (NACA) to be merged with the Centre for Disease Control in the Federal Ministry of Health, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to be merge with the National Commission for Refugee Migration and Internally Displaced Persons.

‘’The Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa to be merged with the Directorate of Technical Aid and to function as a Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Infrastructure concession Regulatory Commission to be merged with Bureau for Public Enterprises.

‘’Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission to be merged with Nigerian Export Promotion Council, National Agency for Science and Technology and Science and Engineering Infrastructure to be merged with National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation and the Project Development Institute.

‘’The National Biotechnology Development Agency to be merged with the National Centre for Genetic Resource and Biotechnology; the National Institute for Leather Science Technology to be merged with the National Institute for Chemical Technology; the Nomadic Education Commission to be merged with the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-formal Education.

‘’The Nigerian Army University is merged with the Nigerian Defence Academy to function as a faculty within the Nigerian Defence Academy; Air Force Institute of Technology also to be merged with the Nigerian Defence Academy to function as the faculty of Nigerian Defence Academy.

She also named the agencies subsumed.

“The service compact with Nigeria (SERVICOM) will be subsumed to function as a department under the Bureau of Public Service Reform; the Border Communities Development Agency to be subsumed to function as a department under the National Boundary Commission.

“The National Salaries, Income and wages Commission to be subsumed into the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission; the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution to be subsumed under the Institute for International Affairs.

“The Public Complaints Commission to be subsumed under the National Human Rights Commission; the Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis to be subsumed into the Institute for Veterinary Research.

“The National Medicine Development Agency to be subsumed under the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development; the National Intelligence Agency Pension Commission to be subsumed under the Nigerian Pension Commission.

‘’For agencies to be relocated: the Niger Delta Power Holding Company to be relocated to the Ministry of Power; the National Agricultural Land Development Agency to be relocated to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.

“National Blood Service Commission to be converted into an agency and relocated to the Federal Ministry of Health, the Nigerian Diaspora Commission to be converted into an agency and to be relocated to the Federal Ministry of Finance.”

Bala-Usman added that President Bola Tinubu has constituted a committee that would work out within 12 weeks, the necessary restructuring and legislative amendments needed to ensure full actualization of the reform.