‘Use Of Technocrats’ll Cut Governance Cost’

A lecturer at the Rivers State University (RSU), Dele Momodu, has called for the use of technocrats in governance in order to reduce cost.
Momodu, who is a Professor of Economics stated in a radio programme recently, that the appointment of Ministers should be done through the civil service in contrast to political appointment., adding that such a move would reduce the rate of contention between labour and governments,.
“If I am the President of this country, no political appointment and if I want a minister of Agriculture, I will go to the Ministry of Agriculture, because there are experts, doctors, professors and professionals there”, he said.
He added that such appointments would only attract allowances in order to forestall a situation where a Minister earns 10 times more than the salary of a Permanent Secretary.
Momodu also said that the government called do more in curtailing the wasted resources if Nigeria hope to come out of recession.
“Do we have a guarantee that the 2017 budget will take us out of recession, no, I do not know how it will do it”, he said.
According to him, what created the recession in the first instance are still there.
He called for a journey back into history, adding that the wastages that characterised expenses that are not needed are still in place.