FEC approves implementation of Oronsaye report, to merge agencies

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The Federal Executive Council, FEC, chaired by President Bola Tinubu has approved the implementation of a portion of the Stephen Oronsaye Panel report on Monday, 26th February 2024.

President Bola Tinubu

This involves merging some parastatals, agencies, and commissions, while others will be subsumed, scrapped, or relocated.

The decision aims to reduce the cost of governance and enhance efficiency across the governance framework, according to Hadiza Bala Usman, the Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination.

Additionally, FEC received a report from an inter-ministerial panel tasked with reviewing the National Social Investment Programme’s operations.

The Council has also sanctioned the immediate resumption of direct payments to 12 million households, benefiting 60 million Nigerians, with certain conditions.

The Oronsaye Panel was initiated in 2011 by then President Goodluck Jonathan to restructure and rationalize Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions, and Agencies.

The committee’s report, submitted on April 16, 2012, identified overlapping agencies contributing to wasteful expenditure. It recommended reducing 263 agencies to 161, abolishing 38 agencies, and merging 52.

AGENCIES TO BE SCRAPPED

  • National Senior Secondary Education Commission, NSSEC, – Transfer functions to the department of Basic and Secondary Education in Federal Ministry of EducationPension
  • Transitional Arrangement Directorate – Transfer functions to the Federal Ministry Finance.

AGENCIES TO BE MERGED

  1. National Emergency Agency, NEMA, to be merged with National Commission Refugee, Migration and Internally Displaced persons – NCFRMI.
  2. Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa – DTCA to be merged with Directorate of Technical Aid – DTAC and to function as a department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  3. Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission – ICRC to be merged with Bureau for Public Enterprise – BPE.
  4. Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission – NIPC, to be merged with Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC.
  5. National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure,NASENI, to be merged with National Centre for Agriculture Mechanization, NCAM, and Project Development Institute – PRODA.
  6. National Biotechnology Development Agency – NABDA to be merged with National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology – NACGRAB.
  7. National Institute for Leather Science Technology, NILEST, to be merged with National Institute for Chemical Technology,NARICT.
  8. The Nomadic Education Commission – NEC to be merged with National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult Education and Non-Formal Education.
  9. Federal Radio Corporation, FRCN, to be merged with Voice of Nigeria, VON.
  10. The National Commission for Museums and Monuments to be merged with National Gallery of Arts.
  11. The National Theatre to be merged with National Troupe of Nigeria.
  12. The National Metallurgical Development Centre, NMDC, to be merged with National Metallurgical Training Institute , NMTI.
  13. Nigerian Army University, NAUB, to be merged with Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA.
  14. Airforce Institute of Technology, AFIT to be merged with Nigerian Defence Academy – NDA.
  15. National Agency for the Control of AIDS – NACA to be merged under the Centre for Disease Control in the Federal Ministry of Health.

AGENCIES TO BE SUBSUMED

  1. Service Compact with all Nigerians – SERVICOM to be subsumed to function as a department under Bureau for Public Service Reforms – BPSR.
  2. Border Communities Development Agency – BCDA, to be subsumed to function as a department under the National Boundary Commission, NBC.
  3. National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission ,NSIWC, to be subsumed into Revenue Mobilization & Fiscal Allocation Commission, RMAFC.
  4. Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution to be subsumed under Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA.
  5. Public Complains Commission, PCC to be subsumed under National Human Rights Commission, NHRC.
  6. Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis, NITR, to be subsumed into Institute of Veterinary Research, VOM.
  7. Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency – NNMDA to be subsumed under the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD.
  8. National Intelligence Agency Pension Commission to be subsumed under the administration of Nigerian Pension Commission, PenCom.
  9. The Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, to be subsumed as a department in the Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy.

AGENCIES TO BE RELOCATED:

  1. Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDHC to be relocated to the Ministry of Power.
  2. National Agricultural Land Development Agency, NALDA, to be relocated to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.
  3. National Blood Service Commission to be converted into an Agency and relocated to the Federal Ministry of Health.
  4. Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, to be converted into an Agency and transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Despite limited progress by previous administrations the current government emphasizes implementing the report to align with its cost-cutting agenda.

Story: Ihuoma Ukeje

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