Tinubu
Tinubu approves full implementation of Oronsaye Report, to merge Federal agencies
The President Bola Tinubu administration has approved the full implementation of the contentious Stephen Oronsaye Panel report to merge some parastatals, agencies, and some commissions, while others will be subsumed, scrapped or relocated.
The FEC meeting chaired by President Tinubu, on Monday, approved the full implementation of the more than 10 years after the report came into being.
Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, Hadiza Bala Usman, explained that the step is in line with the need to reduce cost of governance and streamline efficiency across the governance value chain.
Consequently, the FEC set up a committee with the mandate to implement the mergers, scrapings, and relocations within 12 weeks.
Apart from the Oronsaye report, the cabinet also received a report from the inter-ministerial panel set up to review the affairs of the National Social Investment Programme.
In order to cushion the hardships facing Nigerians currently, FEC approved the immediate restart of the direct payments to 12 million households comprising 60 million Nigerians with key provisos.
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.
In April 16, 2012, the committee submitted an 800-page report identifying, amongst several other things, overlapping agencies, causing wastage in expenditure.
The report said there were 541 parastatals, commissions and agencies and recommended that 263 of the agencies should be reduced to 161, 38 agencies abolished and 52 merged.
There were some motion without movement on the report during ex-President Muhammadu Buhari eight years in office but the new government said implementing the report aligned with its cost-cutting measures.