As part of ongoing reforms aimed at restoring institutional discipline and improving the efficiency of governance, the Benue State Government has inaugurated a committee to review the structure, mandates, and supervisory framework of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.
The State Government also inaugurated the implementation committee of the clean cooking stoves initiative at the Government House Makurdi which it said will transform rural households.
Inaugurating members of the implementation committee on the restructuring of MDAs at the Government House Makurdi Governor Hyacinth Alia represented by his deputy Sam Ode who serves as chairman of the committee expressed concern over the breakdown of institutional order within the public service which it seeks to correct.
Ode explained that the administration had observed significant distortion in the structure of governance with some agencies operating outside the supervision of ministries under which they were legally placed.
The committee will among several others examine mandates of agencies, boards, commissions, bureaus as well as state-owned companies.
Subsequently, the Deputy Governor inaugurated the committee on the implementation of the clean cooking stoves initiative a strategic intervention targeted at improving the wellbeing of the people of the State particularly the women mostly affected by health risks associated with traditional cooking methods.
He disclosed that the committee will oversee the distribution of clean cooking stoves to women across the State and equally drive the campaign for the planting of one million economic trees as part of efforts to strengthen environmental conservation and climate resilience.
The committee is chaired by the Deputy Governor while the Director-General, Bureau for Climate Change, Aondofa Aondona Mailumo serves as Secretary.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
