The Home of Representatives has referred to as on President Bola Tinubu to comprehensively evaluation the 2012 Oronsanye report, all different associated reviews and white papers earlier than implementation.
The choice of the Home adopted the adoption of a movement of pressing nationwide significance collectively moved on the plenary on Thursday by Kama Nkemkanma, Olumide Osoba and Jonathan Gbefwi.
The Inexperienced Chamber urged the President to comprehensively evaluation the Goni Aji Report which reviewed the Oronsanye Report, the White Paper launched by the President Jonathan administration, the Ama Pepple White Paper and the Ebele Okeke White Paper consistent with present realities whereas contemplating implementable options which might be in tune with present realities.
Presenting the movement, Nkemkanma recalled that in 2012, the Jonathan administration, arrange the Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Authorities Parastatals, Commissions and Businesses, headed by Stephen Oronsaye, a retired federal civil servant and former Head of Service of the federation.
He identified that the Oronsaye Committee, after their painstaking project, really useful the scrapping and merging of 220 out of the then-existing 541 authorities companies.
The lawmaker famous that the Committee’s 800-page report famous that the federal government’s parastatals and companies’ capabilities are overlapping and due to this fact really useful the discount of statutory companies from 263 to 161, the abolition of 38 companies, the merger of 52 and the reversion of 14 to departments in ministries and the administration audit of 89 companies capturing biometric options of workers in addition to the discontinuation of presidency funding {of professional} our bodies/councils;
Nkemkanma burdened that the Oronsaye Report revealed then that if the committee’s suggestion was applied, the federal government can be saving over N862 billion between 2012 and 2015 with a breakdown which confirmed that about N124.8 billion can be lowered from companies proposed for abolition; about N100.6 billion from companies 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 faculties of training and N616 million from boards of federal medical centres.
He famous that after the committee’s report, the White Paper committee arrange by Jonathan’s administration rejected a lot of the suggestions whereas these accepted weren’t applied.
The lawmaker additional recalled that in November 2021, the President Muhammadu Buhari administration inaugurated two committees — one of many committees Chaired by Goni Aji, a retired Head of Civil Service of the Federation, was to evaluation the Orosanye report and the second committee, chaired by Ama Pepple, additionally a retired Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, was constituted to evaluation companies created between 2014 and 2021.
He identified that upon submission of their reviews, the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal authorities in July 2022 arrange one other committee chaired by Ebele Okeke, a former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation to supply a white paper on the reviews.
Nkemkanma expressed fear over the complete implementation of a report 12 years after it was first made, which ordinarily is likely to be described as outdated, particularly due to how dynamic the society, economic system, polity, expertise and all sides of nationwide life have been.
He expressed fear that the complete implementation of the 2012 Oronsaye report in 2024 will definitely throw up unintended penalties, implications and outcomes.
The Home resolved: “Urge President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to comprehensively evaluation the 2012 Oronsaye Report, the Goni Aji Report which reviewed Oronsanye Report, the White Paper launched by the President Jonathan administration, the Ama Pepple White Paper and the Ebele Okeke White Paper consistent with present realities whereas contemplating implementable options which might be in tune with present realities, and which on the identical time would have minimal unintended penalties, impacts, implications and outcomes.”
