.As he fires Power, Agriculture Ministers
By Eyo Nsima
Stakeholders have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack his entire Cabinet as the Ministers have allegedly not done much to impact the economy since 2015.
In a statement to cabinet members during the Federal Executive Council meeting, September 1, 2021, Special Adviser to the President, Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina, President Buhari stated that Mohammed Sabo Nanono, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Engr. Sale Mamman, Minister of Power has been sacked.
He stated that, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, Minister of Environment was redeployed to assume duty as the Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development, while Engr. Abubakar D. Aliyu, Minister of State, Works & Housing was deployed as the Minister of Power.
But reacting to the development, the President, Nigeria Consumer Protection Network, Kunle Olubiyo, said: “The action of President Muhammadu Buhari in dropping of the Ministers and Members of Cabinet for non-performance is quite commendable.
“It was a case of a lame duck, lackadaisical and laissez-faire attitudes toward serious national issues that affected the nation’s Economic Sustainability Strategic Programme.
“The President’s action is no doubt in order. Their tenures could be described as the height of, “I don’t care attitude”. We have never seen this kind of magnitudes of an unprecedented nonchalant attitude by Privilege Elites in highly esteemed positions of authority.
The decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to drop some Ministers and rejig his Cabinet is the right step in the right direction and it is our hope that President Muhammadu would completely re-shuffle his Cabinet in the coming days in order to inject fresh energy and provide the much-needed total overhaul the Cabinet.”
Similarly, General Secretary, Network for Electricity Consumers Advocacy of Nigeria (NECAN), Engr. Uket Ogbonga, said: “The former Minister of Power was appointed many years ago, but we have not noticed much improvement in the electricity sector. It, therefore, makes sense to bring in another Minister.
“However, such changes are required in other Ministries, apparently because they are not doing better. Most of the appointments were done in 2015, and if there are not much positive changes in 2021, the President should sack the entire cabinet.”
