Invite Oronsaye to update report before implementation, Shehu Sani tells FG
By Jeffrey Agbo
Senator Shehu Sani has called on the Federal Government to invite former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, to update his report on reducing the cost of governance before it is implemented.
Sani stated this in an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday following President Bola Tinubu’s directive that the report should be implemented.
The 800-page report gives direction on federal government parastatals, commissions, departments and agencies to be merged and scrapped to ensure efficiency and reduction in the cost of governance.
Sani said, “But Oronsaye Report could have been updated. The President could have invited Oronsaye and his committee and said, ‘Update your report based on the new commissions and agencies that have been created after your report.’ Because as it is now, the report is outdated.
“If you live in Abuja today, there’s hardly any street you will move without seeing an agency you never knew before. It’s either one commission on this or an agency on that.
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“Now, look at the number of the agencies that came after Oronsaye Report. So if you look at what’s being done now, it’s simply ‘Let’s implement this without thinking that it has gone out of date.’
“So, the best thing now is to invite Oronsaye and ask him to update his report and then the government can implement it.”
The former legislator said that lawmakers’ performance are often measured by the number of bills they sponsored or the creation of federal agencies and commissions resulting from their initiatives, thereby leading to a high number of federal agencies and commissions in the country.
The Oronsaye Report was formulated in 2011 by then-President Goodluck Jonathan.