As part of the moves to reduce the cost of governance and bring about efficient and improved service delivery, the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has scrapped and restructured the state government’s ministries and offices.
Sources revealed that the realignment of offices in the state was carefully carried out to give room for efficiency and create opportunity for global competitiveness.
Ambode in his Executive Order tagged “urgent” with No: EO/AA01 of 2015 issued and sent to various ministries, departments and agencies, ordered the realignment, creation and abolition of the offices and agencies, saying the order was intended to improve the internal management of the state government.
Some of the offices created include the Office of Civic Engagement, Ministry of Wealth Creation,
The Office of Inter- Governmental Relations was detached from Ministry of Tourism and moved to the Ministry of Special Duties, while the Office of Arts and Culture was merged with the Ministry of Tourism.
Also in the Executive Order, some offices and parastatals which hitherto had autonomy had been moved to some offices for better management.
Among them were: Lands Bureau and Land Use Allocation Committee, which were moved to the Office of the Governor with the newly created Office of Overseas Affairs and Investment.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Rural Development, parastatals Monitoring Office and Office of Political and Legislative Power Bureau were scrapped while their agencies were moved to relevant ministries and offices.
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