The Giving to the Needies Mission International has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria “to immediately initiate and commence a reform in public and civil services for more efficient service delivery”.
This was the resolution of the 22nd Regular Meeting of the Governing Board of Organisation held at Rinmi Guest Motel, Mararaba, Nassarawa State, recently.
The Board’s Secretary, Collins Azu, who addressed the Press shortly after the meeting claimed that the ongoing travails of the suspended Humanitarian Minister, Betta Edu, were avoidable had there been a sectoral reform.
The reform, Azu suggests, includes “the reactivation of the Official Secret Act which earlier had forbade the release of sensitive government information to the public”.
Asked if the freedom of information does not clash with the secret act, GINMI argued that ” the free flow of sensitive government documents, has the potency of triggering chaos. Not only that, distorted angles without verification emerge, especially in the social and new media era when information is uncensored”.
The GINMI Scribe citing the case of Betta Edu argued that the media trials have since the alleged commission of the crime, outweighed the authenticity which is yet to come from the law Court”.
He made a case for cessation of further escalation of media trial or media hostilities of a sought, pending the determination and conclusion of the investigation.
“We are calling for the cessation of media trial in the Betta Edu saga.
“The distorted angles association with the matter is not what can be exhausted today”, he said.