The federal government has inaugurated two sub-committees on
the implementation of the whitepaper on the restructuring of ministries,
departments and agencies to reduce the cost of governance.
Speaking at the ceremony in Abuja on Thursday, Boss
Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), said the other
committee will review new parastatals, agencies and commissions created after
the submission of the report on restructuring.
Mustapha noted that the process will evolve a sustainable
governance architecture for effective public service delivery.
The sub-committees are chaired by former heads of service of
the federation — Bukar Aji, Amal Pepple and Oladapo Afolabi. Other members of
the committees are permanent secretaries of ministries and representatives from
the Bureau of Public Service Reforms
“It is heart-warming that some of the recent reforms and
strategies being put in place are beginning to show the potential of yielding
desired results. Worthy of immediate mention is the Federal Civil Service
Strategy and Implementation Plan (FCSSIP) 2021 – 2025 and its associated
Revised Public Service Rules (PSR) as well as the introduction of Performance
Management System (PMS),” Mustapha said.
“It was in a bid to address this, amongst others, that the
Committee on the Restructuring and Rationalization of Federal Government
Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies was constituted 18th August, 2011 and
submitted its report on 16th April, 2012. The report recommended that of the
541 Statutory and Non-Statutory Federal Government Parastatals, Agencies and
Commissions, 263 statutory agencies should be reduced to 161, 38 agencies
should be abolished, 52 agencies should be merged, and 14 should revert back to
Departments in Ministries.
“Subsequently, the White Paper on the Report was issued and
published in March, 2014 and was followed by the White Paper implementation
Committee inaugurated in May, 2014. However, for a number of reasons, most of
which were anchored on political expediency, the White paper not only rejected
a large number of the recommendations, it also merely noted an equally greater
number of others. But again even those accepted were not implemented.
“Thus, Nigeria has continued to suffer under a daily
increasing weight of a high cost of governance under-pinned by high personnel
and overhead costs to the detriment of having adequate resources for
development projects. For a long time now, the country has been struggling to
make sure that at least 30% of its annual budget goes into capital projects.
“These two Committees viz: Review the Main Report and White
paper on Restructuring and rationalization of Federal Government Parastatals,
Agencies and Commissions; and review New Agencies created after the Submission
of the above report from 2014 to date; were therefore constituted to provide
Government with action plan and roadmap of implementing the recommendations
contained therein.”
The SGF added that the committees will proffer time-based
recommendations, not exceeding one year, on restructuring and rationalisation,
if deemed appropriate of the new agencies.
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