Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
Yesterday, the federal authorities introduced that it was set to start the implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye report, about 12 years after it was first put collectively.
Anticipated to assist in slicing the price of governance, listed here are 12 highlights of the unique model of the a lot talked about doc.
•Scrapping and merging of 220 out of the present 541 authorities businesses on the time the report was ready.
•Administration audit of 89 businesses, capturing biometric options of employees in addition to the discontinuation of presidency funding for skilled our bodies/councils.
•Merging of Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Fee (ICRC) with Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) to be known as Public Enterprises and Infrastructural Concession Fee (PEICC).
•Fusing of the Nationwide Emergency Administration Company (NEMA) and Nationwide Fee for Refugees (NCF) to be known as the Nationwide Emergency and Refugee Administration Fee (NERMC).
•Merging of the Nigerian Tv Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Company of Nigeria (FRCN), the Voice of Nigeria (VON) beneath one administration known as the Federal Broadcasting Company of Nigeria (FBCN).
•Nigerians in Diaspora Fee (NiDCOM) to grow to be an company beneath the Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
•Among the many 38 federal businesses to be abolished, additionally embody: Public Complaints Fee, Nationwide Poverty Eradication Programme, Utilities Costs Fee, Nationwide Company for the Management of HIV/AIDS, Nationwide Intelligence Committee and so forth.
•As well as, 14 businesses are to be fused into ministries the place they had been created from, whereas the Debt Administration Workplace (DMO) is to return to the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Public Well being Division is anticipated to return to the Federal Ministry of Well being
•The Federal Highway Security Fee (FRSC) will grow to be a division within the Nigeria Police Drive, additionally, the Common Fundamental Training Fee, Nomadic Training Fee, and Nationwide Mass Literacy Fee, the report stated, are performing overlapping features and needs to be introduced beneath one physique.
•If the 800-page doc is applied in its authentic type, no less than 102 heads of businesses and parastatals are anticipated to lose their jobs.
•On the time, Oronsaye stated that that if the committee’s suggestion was applied, the federal government would save over N862 billion between 2012 and 2015.
Whereas N124.8 billion can be diminished from businesses proposed for abolition, on the time, about N100.6 billion was to be saved from businesses proposed for mergers; about N6.6 billion from skilled our bodies; N489.9 billion from universities; N50.9 billion from polytechnics; N32.3 billion from schools of schooling and N616 million from boards of federal medical centres.
•Additionally, the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC), Unbiased Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) are anticipated to be merged if the report is applied in its authentic type.
