The Federal Government has revealed that it will be implementing the Oronsaye report, News About Nigeria reports.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known to newsmen after Monday’s Federal Executive Council meeting at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
He noted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given the orders for the implementation, adding that some agencies, commissions, and some departments have been scrapped, modified, and subsumed, respectively.
“So in a very bold move today, this administration, under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, consistent again 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.
“Now, what that means is that a number of agencies, commissions, and some departments have actually been scrapped. Some have been modified, and marked while others have been subsumed. Others, of course, have also been moved from some ministries to others where the government feels they will operate better,” he said.
Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Coordination, Mrs. Hadiza Bala-Usman, further noted that President Bola Tinubu has consequently constituted a committee to implement the mergers, scrappings, and relocations within 12 weeks.
Recall that the Oronsaye report on public sector reforms revealed that there are 541 statutory and non-statutory federal government parastatals, commissions, and agencies, and was submitted in 2012.
The 800-page report recommended that 263 of the statutory agencies be slashed to 161; 38 agencies be scrapped; 52 be merged; and 14 be reverted to departments in various ministries
The report also recommends that the law establishing the National Salaries and Wages Commission be repealed and its functions taken over by the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Responsibility Commission.
