The Federal Government has assured workers that their jobs are not threatened and are secure, even as it carries out the implementation of the Oronsaye report, News About Nigeria reports.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, made this known during his remarks at the Ministerial Press Briefing on Wednesday in Abuja.
He stated that the government has no plans to retrench workers, adding that the essence of implementing the report is to maximise the efficiency of the agencies and reduce costs.
“The essence of the implementation of the Oronsaye reports is not to retrench workers but to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of the agencies and to also reduce cost.
“There are some aspects of the report that have been reviewed, but those aspects that have to do with merging, scrapping, and subsuming have already been undertaken.
“Now, the whole idea is that the government wants to reduce costs and improve service delivery.
“That does not necessarily mean that government is out to retrench workers and throw people into the labour market. That is not the original intention of the government.
“The intention is that efficiency has to be brought in, because, some of these agencies are actually having overlap in their operations. We are doing this for people to have the benefit of democracy,” he said.
Recall that the Federal Executive on Monday approved the implementation of the recommendations of the Oronsaye panel on the restructuring and rationalisation of the Federal Government’s agencies and commissions.
The government said the implementation of the policy would involve the merging, subsuming, and scrapping of agencies with similar functions.
