Opinion: Before We Implement the Oronsaye Report On Public Sector Streamlining, By ‘Tope Fasua
Is the Oronsaye Report flawless and, if not, what will be done about the flaws? More importantly, perhaps, is the question of whether indeed our public service is too large, as most people believe, or whether it is instead merely dysfunctional, inefficient, top heavy, skewed and distended in a funny manner, and lacking in focus on service delivery and service excellence towards the people.
I will also add that Nigeria should be careful about shrinking when we should be expanding. This is certainly not the time to be folding over and crawling into our shells. Every nation is faced with the binary option; to shrink in fear, and risk being killed wholesale by COVID-19 and its economic after-effects, or to stare down the disease and position to be a winner afterwards, by tapping into inner strength, in order to emerge bigger, stronger and more determined, when all this is over.
Let us attempt some answers and suggestions to some of the above questions. These are the issues that government must have in mind as it implements the Oronsaye Report. Most of the issues are known to government anyway, but they bear reiteration, just so that we get our input into the policy formation, as outsiders and ordinary members of the public:
Whatever the government does, we must ensure that the exercise does not necessarily result in mass job losses. As the government as shown with the interventions proposed for micro, small and medium enterprises and others, this is a time to ensure that people continue to have some income from month to month… Sending people out into the unemployment market at this time will be counterproductive, procyclical and it will deepen an already debilitating crisis.
We are heading into an era of ascetism, minimalism, frugality and I wonder if we are ready. I very much doubt this. People don’t change that easily. Nigerians aren’t really changing. Our political leaders will be the last to change, except if they see something drastic threatening them… So, if we are implementing the Oronsaye Report, we must understand that the vulnerable have nothing to fall back on.
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