They demand for a five-year performance assessment report from NDE.
The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee that is investigating the overlapping functions of government agencies has considered the abolishment of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE). The committee also recommended the National Electricity Services Management Agency (NEMSA) for the same purpose. At a continued hearing of the committee, lawmakers said that the two agencies have failed to live up to their mandate and instead costed Nigeria’s taxpayers a lot.
According to members of that committee, the NDE has failed to stem the rising of the unemployed among the teeming youth of the country. As regards NEMSA, the committee noted the weak metering system by the electricity distribution companies in the power sector and stated that the agency was yet to tackle the issue. The committee, therefore, demanded a five-year performance assessment report from the NDE for it to justify its existence in line with the mandate of the probe panel.
A direct response to the rising trend of unemployment.
The NDE was established in November 1986 and began operation in January 1987 during the military administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. Its birth was predicated on the effects of the economic recession of the 1980s which led to a drastic reduction in capacity utilization and outright closure of industries in Nigeria. Also, the economic policies of the then administration, such as the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), devaluation of the naira, privatization and commercialization of the economy, resulted in massive job losses in both the private and public sectors in the country.
It was as a direct response to the rising trend of unemployment that the then military government set up a committee and charged it with the task of proffering a sustainable interventionist solution to reduce the increasing rate of unemployment in Nigeria. The committee discovered that the informal sector of the economy had only operators and employees who were mainly low-skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled. Therefore, the situation placed skills acquisition and training on the front burner as regards job creation. Thus, with Act CAP 250, the NDE was given a legal backing as an employment agency statutorily charged with the responsibility of combating mass unemployment.
Committee members fault the performance of the power regulatory agency.
Some committee members, which included Hon. Adedeji Olajide and Hon. Zacharia Yanpan, picked holes in the performance of the power regulatory agency. They said that the government cannot continue to fund them. Hon. Olajide said, “The agency [NEMSA] is sucking the blood of Nigerian citizens and should be merged with other agencies performing similar functions.” The managing director of NEMSA and the director-general of the NDE were present at the investigative hearing that also featured the National Electricity Liability Management Company (NELMC) and National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
The Managing Director of NEMSA, Engr. Aliyu Tukur, said during his presentation that the agency was established in 2015 by the Federal Government to ensure that there were reliable electricity supplies. He added that the foremost responsibility of the agency was to ensure that materials used in the industry suited the technical specifications and is of good metering quality. Also, while giving his presentation, the Director-General of the NDE, Mr. Abubakar Nuhu, said that the agency was established to ensure that there was employment for Nigerians. He said the agency has presence in all the states of the federation and local council areas and had been providing employment and skills for unemployed Nigerians in line with the mandate.
Chairman of the committee said the NDE was not providing jobs.
However, the chairman of the committee and another member, Hon. Simon Karu, said that the agency was not providing jobs for the youth. The committee therefore adopted the motion by Karu for the NDE to provide a 5-year performance assessment report on employment generation or be recommended for merger. The committee gave the agency one week to submit the report. The committee also threatened to withdraw allocation to the National Power Training Institute in the 2023 National Budget for not addressing the issue of power failures in the country.
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In almost all the two government agencies have performed below expectations and should be called to answer questions on mismanagement resources made available to them.
l support of this what’s the essence of the organization when they both fail at discharging
their purpose of existence,This is so bad the latter failed to provide job opportunities while the former is not effective at metering people’s power been consumed.
I actually don’t know to what purpose these organizations work is . Both the
NDE and NEMSA should be scrapped, because they are not really performing any function. We should ensure we eradicate duplication of functions and positions
The bureaucracy is the major cause of Nigeria problem,they collaborate with all the three arms of government to perpetrate evil,they know most of the problems and how to solve them but they wouldn’t of corruption.
Assessing the performance of NDE and NEMSA for the pass five has proven to us that the have performed below expectations. We are still experiencing low rate of job availability. NEMSA are way too terrible and need to be probe for accountability electricity.
Both NDE and NEMSA is not doing well due bad Management.
Reps to abolish NDE, NEMSA for dual functions. Okay oooo
The two agencies have not been able to fulfill their responsibilities and have instead incurred significant costs for Nigeria’s government and its citizens.
The NDE has not been successful in preventing a rise in the number of young people in the country who are without jobs.
The Committee on Environment and Public Works reported that the Energy Department had not yet addressed the issue of the power sector’s inadequate metering system.
Massive employment losses occurred in both the private and public sectors as a direct result of the naira devaluation, privatization, and commercialization of the economy.
When unemployment in Nigeria began to rise, the country’s former military rulers formed a committee charged with coming up with an interventionist long-term plan to bring the jobless rate down.
The committee came to the conclusion that the informal sector of the economy was dominated by low-skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled workers at all levels of management and employee positions.
The agency was given a week to complete the report and submit it to the committee. For failing to address the issue of power failures in the country, the committee has also threatened to remove funding for the National Power Training Institute from the 2023 National Budget.
Job creation efforts have had to prioritize acquiring new skills and expanding existing ones. As a result, the NDE has the support of the law, making it an official employment agency with the duty of reducing widespread joblessness.
In accordance with its mandate, the agency has a physical presence in all 36 states and in all local council areas, where it has been actively placing and training unemployed Nigerians.
The Nigerian government is the root of the country’s ills because it works in concert with all three branches of government to spread evil and because its members are either complicit in the problem or else too corrupt to do anything about it.
NDE and NEMSA should be scrapped, because they are not really performing any function. We should ensure we eradicate duplication of functions and positions.
NDE and NEMSA should be stopped and scrapped since they are not good well and serve as dual of function in work it is a nice move to abolish them
The Nigerian bureaucracy is a key source of the country’s issues; it works with all three branches of government to do harm, it has a good grasp of the situation and the means to remedy it, but it refuses to do so because of corruption, and it is responsible for many of those problems.
Because it collaborates with all three departments of government to propagate evil and because its members are either complicit in the issue or too corrupt to take action, the Nigerian government is to blame for all of the nation’s problems.
The devaluation of the naira, the privatization of the economy, and the commercialization of the market all had a significant negative impact on employment, both in the public and private sectors. So it is commendable to set up a solution to lower unemployment.