Following President Bola Tinubu’s adoption of the 2012 Oronsaye Report, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has assured public servants that they will not lose their jobs.
Idris disclosed this in a statement signed on Wednesday by his media aide, Rabiu Ibrahim.
Recall that President Tinubu, on Monday, approved the implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye Report on cutting the cost of governance.
Hence, 29 government agencies will be merged, even as eight parastatals will be subsumed into eight other agencies.
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Also, four agencies have been relocated to four various ministries, while one was earmarked for scrapping.
The 800-page report, however, recommended that 263 of the statutory agencies be slashed to 161; 38 agencies be scrapped; 52 be merged and 14 be reverted to departments in various ministries.
Idris explained that “The whole idea is that the government wants to reduce cost and also improve efficiency in service delivery. It does not mean that government is out to retrench workers or throw people into the labour market.”
He said the adoption of the report was a clear demonstration of “President Tinubu’s unwavering commitment to fiscal prudence and responsible governance by championing a comprehensive review of the government‘s commissions, agencies, and parastatals.”