Oronsaye Report: Presidency Releases FULL LIST Of Agencies, Others To Be Scrapped, Merged

• The Oronsaye report addresses the restructuring of the civil service.

• President Tinubu ordered the implementation of the report after FEC approval.

• However, the Tinubu administration is not implementing many parts of the report, according to a list released by the Presidency.

Eko Hot Blog reports that the Nigerian Presidency has released the complete list of the agencies, commissions, and parastatals affected by the implementation of the Oronsaye report.

Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, released the list on his X page Tuesday morning.

The Oronsaye report is named after a former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye, who chaired the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies in 2011.

The committee submitted an 800-page report on April 16, 2012, in which it uncovered a high level of competition among several overlapping agencies, which not only created ill feelings among government agencies but also brought about unnecessary wastage in expenditure.

The Oronsaye report established that there are 541 Federal Government parastatals, commissions and agencies (statutory and non-statutory) and recommended that 263 of the statutory agencies should be reduced to 161, while 38 agencies should be abolished and 52 should be merged

The panel also recommended that 14 of the agencies should revert to departments in ministries.

The Tinubu administration is implementing only some of the recommendations. Here are the agencies and commissions to be scrapped, merged, subsumed, or relocated by the current administration.

AGENCIES TO BE SCRAPPED

1. Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate to be scrapped and functions transferred to the Federal Ministry of Finance

2. National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) to be scrapped and functions transferred to the department of Basic and Secondary Education in Federal Ministry of Education.

AGENCIES TO BE MERGED

1. National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) to be merged under the Centre for Disease Control in Federal Ministry of Health.

2. National Emergency Agency (NEMA) to be merged with National Commission Refugee, Migration and Internally Displaced persons [NCFRMI].

3. Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA) to be merged with Directorate of Technical Aid (DTAC) and to function as a department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

4. Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC) to be merged with Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE).

5. Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) to be merged with Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC).

6. National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to be merged with National Centre for Agriculture Mechanization (NCAM) and Project Development Institute (PRODA).

7. National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) to be merged with National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB).

8. National Institute for Leather Science Technology (NILEST) to be merged with National Institute for Chemical Technology (NARICT).

9. The Nomadic Education Commission (NEC) to be merged with National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult Education and Non Formal Education.

10. Federal Radio Corporation (FRCN) to be merged with Voice of Nigeria (VON).

11. The National Commission for Museums and Monuments to be merged with National gallery of Arts.

12. The National Theatre to be merged with National Troupe of Nigeria.

13. The National Metallurgical Development Centre (NMDC) to be merged with National Metallurgical Training Institute (NMTI).

14. Nigerian Army University (NAUB)should be merged Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA)

15. Airforce Institute of Technology (AFIT) should be merged Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA)

AGENCIES TO BE SUBSUMED

1. Service Compact with all Nigerians (SERVICOM) to be subsumed to function as a department under Bureau for Public Service Reforms (BPSR).

2. Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA) to be subsumed to function as a department under the National Boundary Commission (NBC).

3. National Salaries, Income and Wages Commissioned (NSIWC) to be subsumed into Revenue Mobilization & Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMAFC).

4. Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution to be subsumed under Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA)

5. Public Complaints Commission (PCC) to be subsumed under National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

6. Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis (NITR) to be subsumed into Institute of Veterinary Research (VOM).

7. Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) to be subsumed under the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development
(NIPRD).

8. National Intelligence Agency Pension Commission to be subsumed under the administration of Nigerian Pension Commission (PenCom).

9. The Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) to be subsumed as a department in the Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy.

AGENCIES TO BE RELOCATED

1. Niger Delta Powerholding Company (NDHC) to be relocated to Ministry of power.

2. National Agricultural Land Development Agency [NALDA] to be relocated to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

3. National Blood Service Commission to be converted into an Agency and relocated to the Federal Ministry of Health

4. Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) to be converted into an Agency and transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Contrary to reports that the Tinubu administration is fully implementing the Oronsaye committee’s recommendations, it is implementing only parts of the report as some agencies are still not yet to be merged as the panel recommended.

For example, the committee recommended that NCC & NBC be merged into Communication Regulatory Authority of Nigeria (CRAN), NTA, FRCN & VON be merged into the Federal Broadcasting Corporation of Nigeria (FBCN), and CCB, EFCC & ICPC be merged into the Anti-Corruption Commission, but the current implementation list does not implement these recommendations. Notably, the Tinubu administration is merging FRCN and VON.

Also, the Tinubu administration is not scrapping the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) and Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) as the Oronsaye report recommended.

Meanwhile, the president set up a committee with the mandate to implement the mergers, scrappings, and relocations within 12 weeks.