Our Reporter, Abuja
In a rare display of courage, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday ordered the immediate implementation of report of the Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals and Commissions headed by former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr Stephen Oronsaye.
The said report has been gathering dust in the Presidency since the committee set up by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 turned it in.
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr Mohammed Idris, made this known while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja.
He said the effect of the report would mean that many agencies would be eliminated, combined, or restructured in line with the recommendations of the committee.
“In a very bold move today, this administration, under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, consistent again with his courage to take very far-reaching decisions in the interest of Nigeria, has taken a decision to implement the so-called Oronsaye Report.
“Now, what that means that a number of agencies, commissions and some departments have actually been scrapped. Some have been modified, marked while others have been subsumed. Others, of course, have also been moved from some ministries to others where government feels they will operate a better,” he said.
