President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the implementation
of a report submitted by the presidential committee on restructuring and
rationalization of federal government parastatals, commissions and agencies
during the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
Commonly called the Oransaye report, the 800-paged report
had recommended the abolishment and merging of 102 government agencies and
parastatals.
Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, budget and national
planning, told Channels TV on Wednesday that the president’s approval has been
forwarded to the head of civil service and secretary to the government of the
federation.
“The president has approved that this administration should
implement the Oransanye report,” Ahmed said.
“It has reviewed the whole of the size of government and has
made very significant recommendations in terms of reducing the number of agencies
and that would mean merging some agencies.
“This is a report that has been in place for a long time and
there hasn’t been implementation but the president has approved that this
should be implemented and we have conveyed Mr President’s approval to the arms
of government that are responsible for this and that will be the office of the
secretary of government and the head of civil service of the federation.”
Stephen Oransaye, a former head of civil service, had headed
a committee set up by Buhari’s predecessor to identify civil service
inadequacies.
At the time, the seven-man committee said the
“rationalization of agencies, parastatals and commissions would have human
dimensions and cost implications” and recommended that the government should
focus on empowering the MDAs “to do more for less”.
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