Following a meeting of the Federal Executive Council, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced that President Tinubu has ordered the full implementation of the Oronsaye report.
The Minsiter said
“So in a very bold move today, this administration, under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, consistent again with his courage to take very far-reaching decisions in the interest of Nigeria, has taken a decision to implement the so-called Oronsaye Report.
“Now, what that means is that a number of agencies, commissions, and some departments have actually been scrapped. Some have been modified, and marked while others have been subsumed. Others, of course, have also been moved from some ministries to others where the government feels they will operate better”
President Tinubu has given a 12-week deadline for the full implementation of the Oronsaye report. This means that the proposed reforms will need to be carried out in a relatively short timeframe. It is unclear how the government will go about implementing the changes in such a tight timeframe.
The Oronsaye report, which was submitted in 2012, details a number of proposed reforms to the public sector. These reforms include a reduction in the number of government agencies, with 263 agencies recommended for abolishment, 52 for merger, and 14 to be made part of other ministries. In total, the report proposes reducing the number of government agencies from 541 to 161.
The Oronsaye report also recommends that the National Salaries and Wages Commission be dissolved and its functions transferred to the Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal Responsibility Commission. In addition, the report recommends merging the country’s top three anti-corruption agencies—the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, and the Code of Conduct Bureau—into a single agency. This would streamline the government’s anti-corruption efforts and help to reduce duplication of effort.
