{"id":842,"date":"2023-08-09T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T11:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/?p=842"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:51:35","slug":"launch-of-governance-tracker-crig-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/launch-of-governance-tracker-crig-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Governance Tracker: CRiG.NG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 45px; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; text-decoration-style: initial;\">Launch of Governance Tracker: CRiG.ng<\/span><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><strong style=\"line-height: 1;\">LOREM CORPORATE CEO<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><sign>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style=\"line-height: 2.0;\">Benn Marshall<\/span><\/sign><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Governments have been requested to lower the cost of government in the nation, including the retinue of appointees as well as the number of pecks of office.\nKenneth Eze, the Lead Director of the non-governmental organisation Speak Out Africa Project, told journalists in Abuja that the government must now go beyond politics and lower the cost of governance.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p><ul>\n<li> \u201cRe-echo the Call to prune and streamline Cabinet Ministers\u2019 list to 36 \nmaximum, says cost of running office of a minister too high while \nasking the Nominees to Declare their Asset publicly before office; <br><br>\n<\/li><li> Demand Withdrawal of Ministerial Nominees from 3 States for \nContravening Federal Character Principle, and ask National Assembly \nnot to Consider, Screen or Confirm Nominees if the status quo subsist;<br><br>\n<\/li><li> Call for more inclusion of youth in the awaiting cabinet ministers\u2019 list \nfrom 11 states as current percentage is not encouraging;<br><br>\n<\/li><li> Bemoan NASS on 5.5b proposed Pension payment to 13 serving \nSenators as Ex-Governors\u2019; advise them to turn-down double earnings \ngiven current economic reality;<br><br>\n<\/li><li> Frown at some state Governors who prioritize political appointees \nremuneration over civil servants; calls the action self-serving, anti-productive and unjustifiable.<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nJoin the National Discourse\n<br>on our X (Twitter) Space scheduled to hold on Thursday; <strong>&nbsp;@Africa_speakout <\/strong>twitter (X) account.&nbsp; \n<br>\nvia\n<br><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/spaces\/1nAKErpowEXGL\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/spaces\/1nAKErpowEXGL<\/a>\n<br><br>\n Share with your contacts, here are the details:<br><br>\n<strong>Topic: Conundrum of Geopolitical Zones imbalance; <em>Constitution or Voting Base Preference?<\/em><\/strong>\n<br><br>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday, 10\/08\/2023\n<br><br>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong>&nbsp;7pm.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments have been requested to lower the cost of government in the nation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-scaled.jpg",2560,1829,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-300x214.jpg",300,214,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-768x549.jpg",768,549,true],"large":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-1024x731.jpg",780,557,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-1536x1097.jpg",1536,1097,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-2048x1463.jpg",2048,1463,true],"benevolent-slider":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-1920x967.jpg",1920,967,true],"benevolent-community":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-960x450.jpg",960,450,true],"benevolent-blog":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-350x196.jpg",350,196,true],"benevolent-with-sidebar":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-780x437.jpg",780,437,true],"benevolent-without-sidebar":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-1200x437.jpg",1200,437,true],"benevolent-featured-post":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-275x275.jpg",275,275,true],"benevolent-recent-post":["https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2-75x75.jpg",75,75,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Governments have been requested to lower the cost of government in the nation...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speakoutafricainitiative.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}