The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila informed the NEITI Chairman and CEO on his visit to the agency.

The Federal Government has revealed that the Steve Oronsaye report, aimed at reducing the size and cost of government, has yet to be implemented.

Femi Gbajabiamila, President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, confirmed this on Tuesday, saying he could not provide an exact timeline for implementation.

Gbajabiamila, during his visit to the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) headquarters in Abuja, disclosed that FG is working out all necessary modalities to ensure a smooth run of the policy when it is implemented.

He noted the need for thoroughness before implementing the report, saying “anything worth doing is worth doing properly.”

“Oronsaye’s report is being worked upon. Yes, we’ve been talking about this for months now but anything worth doing is worth doing properly,” Gbajabiamila said.

“It is not as easy as it sounds. A committee has been set up looking at it and I am sure very soon, the final report will be out and implementation will begin.

“I can’t get give an exact timeline but soon…We don’t want to sacrifice thoroughness on the altar of anxiety or anxiousness of getting things done. It will be done soon.”

Earlier this year, the president approved the implementation of the long-shelved Steven Oronsaye Report, which aimed to reduce the size and costs of the federal government.

The Oronsaye report, which was submitted in 2012, recommended that several government agencies be merged or closed in order to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

However, previous administrations failed to implement its recommendations fully.


The Oronsaye report, formally titled “Cost of Governance: Adjusting the Structures,” was commissioned by the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2011.

The committee, in its report, recommended that of the 541 Statutory and Non-Statutory Federal Government Parastatals, Agencies and Commissions, 263 statutory agencies should be reduced to 161, 38 agencies should be abolished, 52 agencies should be merged, and 14 should revert to departments in ministries.

Presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga had also announced that the implementation means that “many agencies will be scrapped and many others will be merged to a leaner government.”

But the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, had assured Nigerians that the implementation of the Oronsaye Report will not lead to job losses.


Idris noted that the report’s implementation aims to “reduce cost and also improve efficiency in service delivery,” not to lay off staff.

“The whole idea is that government wants to reduce cost and also improve efficiency in service delivery. It does not mean that government is out to retrench workers or throw people into the labour market,” Idris said.

https://guardian.ng/news/no-timeline-yet-for-implementation-of-oronsaye-report-gbajabiamila/

After initial gragra, that one don go as usual. Sentiment has won. Nigeria will continue to moving round and round.

atiku4President:
After initial gragra, that one don go as usual. Sentiment has won. Nigeria will continue to moving round and round.

You can imagine!!!

Many more MDAs, Parastatals and Agencies have been created since 2012 when that report was submitted.
The current President has created more MDAs than the past Administration.

So how can the report be implemented?

So will the Government scrap, merged these MDAs based on 2012 or 2024?

Dead on arrival!!!

Hehehehehe

Femi is the new Abba Kyari. Very lucky man if you ask most Nigerians.

Inukwa

Ok

I knew it. Like they say that talk is cheap.
It's easier said than done.
Even the local government autonomy the supreme Court ordered, the governors haven't make it work not to talk of oronsaye report. Except you want to cause serious confusion in the country. You will just merge efcc and icpc together, merge merge vio and frsc, merge NCAA and FAAN together etc. Who will be leading who?

There is no political will to do what is right.

The lack of timeline is one of the bane of government or any other policy anywhere.
Goals must be time bound.

Insincere politicians. Hand go touch una someday.

Implementing this at this time would be cantankerous and not serve their interests. Remember BAT has a penchant for appointment. He is not the one who would reduce the opportunity to appoint people and provide jobs for the boys. So it cannot be implemented now.

It's only a clear incorruptible government will surely implement this report,any government who's hands are not clean and corrupt will never implement the orasanye report,QED

Gbajabiamila is doing great as the Chief of Staff.

datola:
Femi is the new Abba Kyari. Very lucky man if you ask most Nigerians.

Actually you are wrong, you hardly see Femi on the media dishing out information unlike Abba Kyari that was jack of all trades. Femi understands division of labour more than anyone else.

Noted

COMRADES are speechless, after 10 years of taking over government from PDP, APC is still confused on governance

What a shame

Most Stupid & Foolish Nigeria Chief Of Staff in History

“Human brain is unique and miraculous. It works and functions optically 24hrs a day, 365 days a year, Until You Join APC, then it stops working.”

Put the Code Here if Are Honest & Serious

Jeet83nf:
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Nigeria is gone! How will this country ever move forward

Toh

We are waiting patiently for the implementation.

Slow and steady

Another wasted report like confab

Mumu government

4 years go just waste from our nationa lives

Lol....they have used 419 to catch the mugus again....they announced a populist policy they knew they would not implement because its against their interests, allow the mugu believers and empty heads to celebrate on nothing, expecting changes, months later they come out to state why they cant implement it now...they have carried the mugus on handicap

Same for the reduction of tarrifs on imported foods..i laughed when some Tinubu BOTs were jubilating and hallucinating on an irrelevant pronouncement....knowing the government would not implement it simply because they need revenues badly and the insufficiency of revenue is why they are going cap in hand begging for loans from world bank and other countries. Custom duties and tariffs are one of the largest source of government revenue of which food imports is a major contributor ...reducing it will hurt the government purse further....it was just a popular pronouncement to make the mugus think the government cares about them.

PROPAGANDA has never been this hyped 😨

datola:
Femi is the new Abba Kyari. Very lucky man if you ask most Nigerians.

..you mean emilokans..

..understand this..not all Nigerians are emilokans..

Sure!

So why all the effizzy of implementing the report by the druggie government?