President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the immediate dissolution of the Governing Boards of all Federal Government Parastatals, Agencies, Institutions, and Government-Owned companies in the exercise of its Constitutional Powers and in the Public interest.
This is contained in a statement Monday night by Mr Willie Bassey, the Director, Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF).
This is coming hours after the President sacked all the nation’s service chiefs and named their replacements.
According to the statement, the dissolution did not affect boards, commissions and councils listed in the Third Schedule, Part 1, Section 153 (i) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.
“In view of this development and until such a time new boards are constituted, the Chief Executive Officers of the parastatals, agencies, institutions, and government-owned companies are directed to refer matters requiring the attention of their boards to the President, through the Permanent Secretaries of their respective supervisory ministries and offices,” the statement said.
The statement directed permanent secretaries to route correspondences to Mr President through the Office to the Secretary of the Government of the Federation.
“Consequently, all ministries, departments and agencies are to ensure compliance to the provision of this directive which took effect from Friday 16th June, 2023.
“Permanent secretaries are particularly directed to inform the Chief Executive Officers of the affected agencies under the supervision of their respective ministries/offices for immediate compliance,” the statement read
The development has confirms Daily Trust on Sunday report of anxiety over imminent board, management of parastatals, agencies dissolution in a directive of Tinubu to the SGF, Senator George Akume.
Senior government officials had told Daily Trust that the dissolution would be announced soon, as expected.
One of the officials had said that the area of concern for them as civil servants was the ‘umbrella mode’ to be adopted in the dissolution, including those whose tenure are guaranteed by the enabling acts of their establishment.
This fear seemed to have been addressed in the Monday’s statement that the dissolution did not affect boards, commissions and councils listed in the Third Schedule, Part 1, Section 153 (i) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.
Senior government officials had also told Daily Trust that the dissolution would cut across all the MDAs and also affect all political appointments made by former President Buhari’s administration.
