Amid the rising cost of governance and increasing public workforce, it is cheering that the Federal Government has decided to implement
the report of Steve Oronsaye Committee of 2012. The committee was set up to review ... the report of Steve Oronsaye Committee of 2012. The committee was set up to review the cost of governance at the time and to make appropriate recommendations to moderate it in the public interest.
The Oronsaye panel was set up by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 and was mandated to recommend ways and means to restructure and rationalise overlapping and oversized federal bureaucracy, parastatals, and agencies. Upon completion of the exercise, the panel submitted an 800-page report on April 16, 2012.
There is no doubt that this assignment will not be easy, with more agencies having been created after the Oronsaye report was submitted. The report recommended that 263 of the statutory agencies that were in existence 12 years ago be slashed to 161; 38 agencies be scrapped; 52 be merged and 14 be reverted to departments in various ministries, to save billions of naira.
At the same time, the government must remain committed to reducing governing costs and also mindful of the unintended adverse repercussions of the exercise at this time of economic distress. The government must work sincerely to debunk cynical notions of its actions as being diversionary from the economic hardship of the moment.
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