FG Working on Steve Oronsaye Report – Gbajabiamila

Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, has addressed why the federal government has yet to implement the Steve Oronsaye report.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday during a visit to the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) headquarters in Abuja, Gbajabiamila clarified that the government is carefully working out the necessary procedures to ensure the policy’s successful implementation.

EKO HOT BLOG gathered that he refuted claims that the report has been disregarded or ignored, though he acknowledged that there is no set timeline for its implementation.

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Earlier this year, in February, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), led by President Tinubu, approved the full implementation of the Oronsaye report, which proposed merging, subsuming, scrapping, or relocating various parastatals, agencies, and commissions.

Steve Oronsaye

An eight-member committee was formed to provide recommendations on these changes within 12 weeks.

Despite this, the report has not yet been put into action six months later. The Oronsaye report aims to reduce governance costs and improve efficiency within the government.

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Background

In 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan established the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions, and Agencies, chaired by Steve Oronsaye.

On April 16, 2012, the committee submitted an extensive 800-page report identifying overlapping agencies that contribute to expenditure waste.

The report recommended reducing the number of parastatals, commissions, and agencies from 541 to 161, abolishing 38 agencies, and merging 52 others.

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