President Bola Tinubu has ordered the total implementation of the Oronsaye report.
Because of this, the federal government introduced the merging, subsuming, scrapping, and relocation of a number of companies.
In 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan established the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Authorities Parastatals, Commissions, and Companies, with Mr. Steve Oronsaye because the Chairman.
Coming from a personal sector background, Oronsaye transitioned into the civil service at a senior stage and ascended to the place of Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.
Submitted in 2012, the Oronsaye report highlighted the existence of 541 Federal Authorities parastatals, commissions, and companies, each statutory and non-statutory.
The 800-page report advisable the discount of statutory companies from 263 to 161, scrapping 38 companies, merging 52, and reverting 14 to departments in several ministries.
A earlier investigation by SUNDAY PUNCH discovered that the Nigerian authorities has the potential to avoid wasting greater than N241bn if the suggestions are put into motion.
Beneath is a listing of a number of the companies that could be scrapped if the Oronsaye report is totally carried out as ordered by President Tinubu:
- One of many key solutions within the report is the consolidation of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, and Impartial Corrupt Practices and different Associated Offences Fee right into a single company.
- Moreover, the report advisable the elimination of the Fiscal Accountability Fee and the Nationwide Salaries, Earnings and Wages Fee, with their obligations being integrated into the Income Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Fee.
- The Salaries and Wages Earnings Fee is more likely to face an identical destiny..
- 38 Federal Companies had been advisable for abolition, together with the Public Complaints Fee, Nationwide Poverty Eradication Programme, Utilities Prices Fee, Nationwide Company for the Management of HIV/AIDS, Nationwide Intelligence Committee, and extra.
- Nationwide Company for the Management of HIV/AIDS be merged as a Division underneath the Centre for Illness Management within the Federal Ministry of Well being.
- The merger of Nationwide Emergency Administration and the Nationwide Fee for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Individuals.
- The Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa be abolished and its capabilities, together with these of the Technical Aids Corps, transferred to an applicable Division within the Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
- Infrastructure Concessionary and Regulatory Fee be subsumed within the Bureau of Public Enterprises for larger synergy and their enabling legal guidelines amended accordingly.
- It was steered that the Nigerian Airspace Administration Company, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, and the Nigerian Metrological Company ought to be mixed into a brand new entity known as the Federal Civil Aviation Authority, with their legal guidelines adjusted to accommodate the merger.
- The committee steered merging the Nigerian Funding Promotion Council with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council to boost useful resource administration and utilisation.
- The committee steered repealing the enabling regulation of the Nationwide Fee for Nomadic Training and transferring the Fee’s actions to the Common Fundamental Training Fee.
- The Nationwide Council of Arts and Tradition will mix with the Nationwide Theatre and the Nationwide Troupe to kind a single organisation
- The Nationwide Company for Science and Engineering Infrastructure be merged with Nationwide Centre for Agricultural Mechanization and Venture Improvement Institute
- The committee steered that the Nationwide Hajj Fee of Nigeria and the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Fee be abolished, with the federal government focusing solely on providing consular companies and vaccinations to potential pilgrims.
- The Nigerian Communications Fee, the Nigerian Broadcasting Fee and the regulatory capabilities of the Nigerian Postal Providers had been advisable by the committee to be merged.
- The Nationwide Data Expertise Improvement Company to be fused into the Ministry of Communication Expertise
- Nigerian Tv Authority, Federal Radio Company of Nigeria & Voice of Nigeria into the Federal Broadcasting Company of Nigeria.
- The Nigerian Military College to be merged with the Nigerian Defence Academy; to operate as a school with the the Nigerian Defence Academy.
- Air Pressure institute of Expertise additionally to operate as school inside Nigerian Defence Academy.
- Debt Administration Workplace to develop into an extra-ministerial division within the Federal Ministry of Finance
- Public Well being Division to return to the Federal Ministry of Well being
- The Nigerian Funding Promotion Council was advisable to merge with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council to boost useful resource administration and utilisation.
- One vital advice from the committee was to cease offering authorities funding to skilled our bodies and councils. Subsequently, it’s essential to revise the Skilled Our bodies (Particular Provisions) Act of 1972, which requires the federal government to supply monetary help to those organisations.
- The checklist contains varied skilled councils and boards in Nigeria, such because the Lecturers Registration Council of Nigeria, Pc Professionals Council of Nigeria, Promoting Practitioners Council of Nigeria, Nigeria Press Council, Architects Registration Council, Council for Registered Engineers of Nigeria, Property Surveyors’ Registration Board, City Planners Council, Nigerian Builders Council, Amount Surveyors’ Registration Board of Nigeria, and Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geoscientists.
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