President Bola Tinubu has directed the full implementation
of the Oronsaye report.
The Oronsaye report on public sector reforms, submitted in
2012, revealed that there are 541 statutory and non-statutory—federal
government parastatals, commissions and agencies.
President Bola Tinubu has directed the full implementation
of the Oronsaye report
Speaking with journalists at the end of the federal
executive council (FEC) on Monday, Mohammed Idris, minister of information,
said Tinubu has approved some reforms based on the Oronsaye report.
Idris said numerous agencies would be eliminated, others
combined or restructured to cut governance costs.
The minister assured workers that the move would not
initially affect jobs.
“In a very bold move today, this administration, under the
leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, consistent with his courage to take
very far-reaching decisions in the interest of Nigeria, has taken a decision to
implement the so-called Oronsaye report,” the minister said.
“Now, what that means that a number of agencies, commissions
and some departments have actually been scrapped.
“Some have been
modified, marked while others have been subsumed. Others, of course, have also
been moved from some ministries to others where government feels they will
operate better.”
On her part, Hadiza Bala-Usman, special adviser to the
president on policy coordination, said Tinubu has constituted a committee to
implement the report within 12 weeks.
The committee will be headed by George Akume, secretary to
the government of the federation (SGF).
BACKGROUND
In 2011, former President Goodluck Jonathan constituted the
Stephen Oronsaye-led panel to identify inadequacies in the country’s civil
service.
In 2012, the committee submitted an 800-page report and
recommended the abolishment and merging of 102 government agencies and
parastatals.
The committee on the white paper for the report submitted
its report in 2014.
Since the submission of the report, the recommendations have
not been implemented.
However, several committees and sub-committees were
established to implement the report’s recommendations.
In November 2021, the federal government inaugurated two
sub-committees chaired by former heads of service of the federation — Bukar
Aji, Amal Pepple and Oladapo Afolabi – on the implementation of the report.
The two sub-committees were tasked with the implementation
of a whitepaper on the restructuring of ministries, departments and agencies to
reduce the cost of governance.
In July 2022, the federal government inaugurated a white
paper committee to review ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) created
since 2014.
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