The President’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, says there is no timeline for implementing Steve Oronsaye’s Report yet. He stated this yesterday during an interview with journalists after an official visit to Abuja’s Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) headquarters......See Full Story>>.....See Full Story>>
Gbajabiamila, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, debunked claims that the report was being stalled. He said the Federal Government is working out all necessary modalities to ensure the policy’s smooth implementation.
The 12-year-old report saw some motions without movement during ex-President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years in office, but the new government said that its implementation aligned with its cost-cutting measures.
So, in February, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), chaired by President Bola Tinubu, approved the full implementation of the Oronsaye report to merge some parastatals, agencies, and commissions, while others will be subsumed, scrapped, or relocated.
According to the government, this was in line with the need to reduce the cost of governance and streamline efficiency across the governance value chain.
To ensure the implementation of the proposed changes, FEC set up an eight-man committee with the mandate to implement the mergers, scrapings, and relocations within 12 weeks.
However, six months later, the report still needs to be implemented. In July, the President created a Ministry of Livestock Development from the Agriculture Ministry, a development met with mixed reactions.
Back in 2011, then President Goodluck Jonathan set up the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions, and Agencies with Oronsaye as chairman.
On April 16, 2012, the committee submitted an 800-page report identifying overlapping agencies causing expenditure wastage.
The report listed 541 parastatals, commissions, and agencies and recommended reducing 263 of them to 161, abolishing 38, and merging 52.
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