President Bola Tinubu has directed that the Oronsaye report be fully implemented.
The Oronsaye report on public sector reforms was submitted in 2012. It identified 541 statutory and non-statutory federal government parastatals, commissions, and agencies.
Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information, told journalists after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Monday that Tinubu had approved some reforms based on the Oronsaye report.
Idris stated that many agencies would be eliminated. He added that others would be merged or restructured to reduce governance costs.
The minister assured workers that the move would not have an immediate impact on their jobs.
The minister said:
“In a very bold move today, this administration, under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, consistent with his courage to take very far-reaching decisions in the interest of Nigeria, has decided to implement the so-called Oronsaye report.”
“Now, what that means is that several agencies, commissions and some departments have been scrapped.
“Some have been modified, 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.”
Hadiza Bala-Usman, special adviser to the president on policy coordination, stated that Tinubu has formed a committee to implement the report within 12 weeks.
The committee will be led by George Akume, the federation’s secretary-general.
