By Levinus Nwabughiogu
Abuja—The House of Representatives has said yesterday that Nigeria’s high debt profile was consequent upon loans obtained to fund government agencies with duplicated functions.
The Green Chamber contended that since the practice was counter-productive, it would not condone it any longer.
Chairman of the Adhoc committee of the House set up to review the duplication of government agencies, Victor Danzaria, raised the concern at a session of the panel with the Director-General of Administrative State College of Nigeria, ASCON, Mrs Cecilia Gayya.
Speaking at the meeting that also had the Public Service Institute of Nigeria, PSIN, and DG, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, Olueabunmi Amao, Danzaria said the country had had to pay so much on agencies with overlapping functions.
He said: “Counter productivity of established agencies is a fact that a lot of agencies led to a lot of loans we always approve as a National Assembly to maintain the organizations. This ad hoc committee is looking at the productivity and service delivery of these agencies.
“Another mandate of this committee is to ascertain root cause analysis of the regular bickering making established agencies government keeps spending money on.
