FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES PLAN TO REVISIT ORONSAYE PANEL.
The Federal Government, on Sunday, restated its commitment to the implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye report aimed at reducing the cost of governance through merging, scrapping and relocating departments and agencies.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, who spoke to Newsmen on Sunday, said work was still in progress on the report.
Idris said, “There is progress on it, that committee is still working on it. Once it is ready, it will be presented to the government.
Similarly, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the committee was working within the 12-week deadline, which had not lapsed.
The 800-page Oronsaye 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 abolished, 52 agencies merged, and 14 other ones should revert to departments in ministries.