On Monday, President Bola Tinubu authorised the implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye report, which is aimed at merging, scrapping, and relocating some agencies, parastatals, and commissions.
President Tinubu gave the direction at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting held at Abuja.
However, an eight-man committee has been set up with the deadline of 12 weeks to ensure that the necessary legislative amendments and administrative restructuring needed to implement the reforms are effected in an efficient manner.
The committee comprises the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Head of the Civil Service, Attorney General and Justice Minister, Budget and Planning Minister, DG Bureau of Public Service Reform, Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, and Special Assistant to the President on the National Assembly. The Cabinet Affairs Office will serve as the secretariat.
In this article, GOLDEN PAGE MAGAZINE highlighted agencies, parastatals, and commissions to be scrapped, merged, and relocated.
The list of the affected agencies to be scrapped is: Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate to be scrapped and functions transferred to the Federal Ministry of Finance; National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) to be scrapped and functions transferred to the department of Basic and Secondary Education in the Federal Ministry of Education.
While agencies that were merged in the Oronsaye report are as follows: the National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) to be merged under the Centre for Disease Control in the Federal Ministry of Health; the National Emergency Agency (NEMA) to be merged with the National Commission on Refugees, National Emergency Agency (NEMA) to be merged with National Commission Refugee, Migration and Internally Displaced Persons [NCFRMI]; the 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,Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC) to be merged with the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE).
Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) to be merged with Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to be merged with National Centre for Agriculture Mechanisation (NCAM) and Project Development Institute (PRODA), National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) to be merged with National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), National Institute for Leather Science Technology (NILEST) to be merged with National Institute for Chemical Technology (NARICT),
Others include: the Nomadic Education Commission (NEC) to be merged with the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult Education, and Non-Formal Education; the Federal Radio Corporation (FRCN) to be merged with the Voice of Nigeria (VON); the National Commission for Museums and Monuments to be merged with the National Gallery of Arts; the National Theatre to be merged with the National Troupe of Nigeria; The National Metallurgical Development Centre (NMDC) should be merged with the National Metallurgical Training Institute (NMTI); the Nigerian Army University (NAUB) should be merged with the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), and the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) should be merged with the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA)
Agencies to be subsumed are: Service Compact with All Nigerians (SERVICOM) to be subsumed to function as a department under the Bureau for Public Service Reforms (BPSR); Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA) to be subsumed to function as a department under the National Boundary Commission (NBC); National Salaries, Income, and Wages Commissioned (NSIWC) to be subsumed into the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMAFC); and the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution to be subsumed under the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA).
Other subsumed agencies include the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) to be subsumed under the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis (NITR) to be subsumed into the Institute of Veterinary Research (VOM), the Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) to be subsumed under the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), the National Intelligence Agency Pension Commission to be subsumed under the administration of the Nigerian Pension Commission (PenCom), and the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) to be subsumed as a department in the Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy.
Following the conclusion, the agencies to be relocated are as follows: Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDHC) to be relocated to the Ministry of Power; the National Agricultural Land Development Agency [NALDA] to be relocated to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security; the National Blood Service Commission to be converted into an agency and relocated to the Federal Ministry of Health; and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) to be converted into an agency and transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Background
The Oronsaye report, initially submitted to the Jonathan administration in 2012, was later published in a white paper in 2014.
Subsequently, the Buhari administration reviewed this white paper and issued a second one in August 2022. However, despite these actions, the recommendations of the report were not implemented.
The Oronsaye report proposed reducing the number of statutory and non-statutory Federal Government parastatals, agencies, and commissions from 541 to 161.
It suggested abolishing 38 agencies, merging 52, and reverting 14 to departments within ministries.
