oismail:
Is just for political relevance reason.
Permanent Secretaries can do that too but our constitution provides it and the most painful part is every state must have someone in the FG cabinet
So Sowie Naija
I hope the 8th Assembly do something about this


Question to OP;
Or could this be a topic too!

What about Nigeria having one Legislative?

soe:
Let me educate the OP.

Forget about the fact that the constitution makes it compulsory....let me tell you why ministers are different from P.S.

One, the minister is the policy maker, the thinker of initiative, both for the president and for the ministry...so he is an expert in his field...e.g, finance.

While the PS is the chief administrator, managing policy and directive implementations, coordinating processes and guiding the minister towards existing laid down rules and procedures in the civil service.

Just to be sure you understand, a court room has a Judge, it also has a Registrar. The judge is only paid to think and decide...not an easy task though. While the registrar is burdened solely by administrative duties of all workers in the court as well as guiding the judge and lawyers on how court procedures have been carried out for donkey years.

Any attempt to combine both roles will be counter productive. That explains why science researchers have advised executives not to drive their cars themselves...you cannot be thinking of issues to discuss at the meeting you are going, receiving instantaneous updates, making clear judgments on them and expect to pay perfect attention to both the road and the condition of the car. That is also why, biologically speaking, in the central nervous system, the cerebrum is totally different from the medulla oblongata

Your take home from the above is this...the thinker must never be the driver in any organisation...and mr president cannot be the major thinker in all ministerial departments.




Second point, it is hard to tell from the outside on why a ministry has not been effective or has successively failed in its mandate....the PS may have stayed for over 15yrs in that service without much exposure to the larger society on how things are being better run. The PS may have run out of new ideas and so may have other civil service colleagues in the system...the minister comes with a 4yrs mandate to turn the fortunes around and is expected to give strong motivation and direction to the team while looking critically into what aspects of bureaucracy has hitherto lampooned the system into the current lacuna thereby reinvigorating the system out of such imbroglio.


Thirdly, when a ministry fails and the president wishes to strike them hard, the head is usually the first causality...the question now is...who should bell the cat? A civil servant who may be innocent and has put in over 25 years of hard work into the system? Or a recently appointed minister who maybe innocent but still has his own livelihood to fall back on?

I leave the answer to your judgment.

My final point is this...you cannot keep running things same way and expect a different result, if you want change, change the head. And that is why the constitution has made every ministry to be headed by someone who is changeable and not someone who is permanent.

I rest my case

Saifullah01:
The thought just crossed my mind, the perm secs are the brain boxes in all ministries, ministers are just politicians.

Secondly I hope those accusing the president of weakness by not interfering in the NASS, will not turn around and insult him if he gives the EFCC same latitude in the performance of their duties

Your thoughts...

myklangelo:
My BRo you are very right.
What is the need for Vice President since we have a president?
What is need for chancellor since we have a Vice Chancellor?
What is need for LGA chairmen since we have a governor?
What is need for House of Rep since we have Senators?
What is the need for Perm Secr, since they hve PAs that do all their work for them?
Why are humans working since computers are there?

Why are we never tired of fabricating excuses even when we know things are wrong?
Or are things right and wrong based solely on who is committing it and not on state of things?

My tutorial for the week is out...Igbo ga-adiririri!

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jumobi1:
If anything, what's the point of a perm sec?
Head of Departments can implement the ministers policies

Freemanan:


Lies...

Fund syphoning

darmys:


of course na... but i dint want to say it let us keep calling it division of labour

myklangelo:
My BRo you are very right.
What is the need for Vice President since we have a president?
What is need for chancellor since we have a Vice Chancellor?
What is need for LGA chairmen since we have a governor?
What is need for House of Rep since we have Senators?
What is the need for Perm Secr, since they hve PAs that do all their work for them?
Why are humans working since computers are there?

Why are we never tired of fabricating excuses even when we know things are wrong?
Or are things right and wrong based solely on who is committing it and not on state of things?

My tutorial for the week is out...Igbo ga-adiririri!

The 1st Igbo language blog is out, it is fun and insightful. Visit, comment, share and criticize.www.odeniigbo..com

mikolo80:
you sound illiterate.

atbu1983:
The aim of appointing ministers is to compensate politicians.
Ministers are not very important in d true sense of it.