Run A Thin GOVT, NLC Tells Buhari-But Buhari Already Has Two Spoke Persons

The deputy president of the Nigeria Labour Congress comrade Peters Adeyemi has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to run an over bloated government, saying the new government can cut cost by running a lean government.first I think very critical to me, let this government trim down the numbers of political appointees. What we had before was an insane arrangement.
Insane in the sense that we had a whole lot of duplications of duties. Are you not surprised that you have a ministry that has a minister, minister of state, permanent secretary and so many retinue of advisers. If you go to the presidency and you see the number of offices there, you will shiver. You can run an effective government without necessarily carrying a large size.
He also said the cost of running the national assembly must be quickly reduced if the government hopes to plug leakages and cut cost.

He said, the national assembly salaries must necessarily be reduced. They are the highest paid in the world. Some of their allowances are not known to anybody. The question is will this government be able to curtail the excesses of the national assembly? Everybody must be accountable. If we say that the resources are not there, everybody will have to make sacrifice. And when I talk of lean government, I am not talking about the federal alone, I am also talking about the states.

There was a time the number of the political aids the Bauchi state was having was running in thousands. We can’t afford that because that is a state also that cannot even pay salaries. And when they quote these over bloated figures on what they spend on recurrent, you ask yourself, what is the percentage of that figure that they are parading that is paid to the ordinary worker? The biggest chunk of the money that they claim is spent on recurrent is expended on political appointees.

There are a lot of people who shiver when they say Buhari will probe. If we have to recover money from people who had taken money illegitimately, it should be done.