A former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, said the Oronsaye Report is outdated and needs to be updated before implementation.
Sani stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s
Politics Today on Wednesday.
Recall that the Oronsaye Report was commissioned in 2012
with the goal of rationalising and restructuring federal government
parastatals, commissions, departments and agencies.
But, Sani said the report has become obsolete due to the
proliferation of new agencies and commissions since its inception.
He said that legislators’ performance was often measured by
the number of bills they sponsored or the creation of federal agencies and
commissions resulting from their initiatives, thereby leading to a high number
of federal agencies and commissions in the country.
Sani noted that the approach did not align with the
country’s economic realities.
He said, “Most of these commissions were created by the
National Assembly. When you are elected into office as a senator or as a member
of the House of Representatives, one of the factors that they use to gauge your
performance or stewardship in office is the number of bills you are able to
sponsor, or the number of federal agencies that came out of your bills.
“And as such, you see every year, legislators come out with
all sorts of ideas about commissions and agencies and boards and bureaus. But
we don’t take cognizance of the fact that we are a poor country. A nation of
224 million people with such little resources.
“Some of the agencies that we created in this country are so
irrelevant and useless. And it’s time that we implemented this report.
“But Oronsaye Report could have been updated. The President
could have invited Oronsaye and his committee and said, ‘Update your report based
on the new commissions and agencies that have been created after your report.’
Because as it’s now, the report is outdated.
“If you live in Abuja today, there’s hardly any street you
will move without seeing an agency you never knew before. It’s either one
commission on this or an agency on that.
“Now, look at the
number of the agencies that came after Oronsaye Report. So if you look at
what’s being done now, it’s simply ‘Let’s implement this without thinking that
it has gone out of date.’
“So, the best thing now is to invite Oronsaye and ask him to
update his report and then the government can implement it,” he said.
The Oronsaye Report was formulated in 2011 by the
then-President Goodluck Jonathan under the Presidential Committee on the
Rationalization and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals,
Commissions, and Agencies.
The report aimed to streamline governance, reduce costs, and
enhance efficiency.
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