The Federal Government may scrap the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and 35 other agencies any movement from now. This is the recommendation of the Oronsaye’s Presidential committeeon the Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government parastatals, commissions and agencies.
The committee said from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) alone, four agencies, the FRSC, EFCC, ICPC, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, have been created,thereby duplicating functions.
The committee’s Chairman, Stephen Oronsaye, while giving insight into the report in his remarks during the presentation held at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, recommended the reduction of the existing 263 statutory agencies to 161. Oronsaye was Head of Civil Serviceof the Federation. The report was submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan.
He said in all, the committee recommended the abolition of 38 agencies, merger of 52 and reversion of 14 agencies to departments in the relevant ministries.
The committee, according to him, also recommended the management audit of 89 agencies capturing biometric features of staff as well as the discontinuation of government funding of professional bodies/councils.
In all, Oronsaye said if the committee’s report was adopted and agencies reduced in accordance with the recommendation, government would save over N862 billion between this year and 2015.
The breakdown showed that about N124.8 billion would be reduced from agencies proposed for abolition; about N100.6 billionfrom agencies proposed for mergers; about N6.6 billionn fromprofessional bodies; N489.9 billion from universities; N50.9 billion from polytechnics; N32.3 billion from colleges of education and N616 million from boards of Federal Medical Centres.
The committee described as “a fundamental breach of acceptablepractice of good public sector governance to create a new agency or institution as a response to the seeming failure or poor performance of an existing agency in order to suit political or individual interests”, aswell as “misadventure in the public sector at a great cost to government”, the setting up of FRSC to take over partially the functions already apportioned by law to the Federal Ministry of Works and the NPF as a result of seeming poor performance and/or to satisfy political and individual interests.
The committee also observed thatthe National Oil Spill Detection andResponse Agency (NOSDRA) is duplicating the function already assigned by law to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), noting that “besides being a clear case of latter-day overlapping functions of agencies, the continued existence of NOSDRA is tantamount to paying huge salaries to persons who do nothing, but wait for spills to occur. This is despite the fact that there is a standard operating procedure for oil companies in Nigeria to clean up oil spill whenever it occurs”.
The committee also noted that three agencies: the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), the Nomadic Education Commission (NEC), and the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NCMLA) all perform functions related to the provision of basic education.
“The question then arises as to why they continue to function as separate bodies. Our committee isof the view that the functions of all the other agencies should be taken over by UBEC as there is no economic gain in having the threebodies as separate entities”.
The panel noted that sadly, 12 years after the White Paper on theAhmed Joda Panel Report on the Review, Harmonization and Rationalization of Federal Government parastatals, institutions and agencies (2000), some parastatals and agencies, which government had decided should either be scrapped, commercialized, privatized or self-funding, were still receiving full government funding, which runs into billions of Naira.
Oronsaye, while submitting the report, regretted that “the long-standing challenges that beset the Nigerian public sector, including the parastatals, have created a “single story” of inefficiency, corruption, poor work environment, low morale, ineffectiveness, deceit and low productivity, thereby establishing a perception of a dysfunctional and unproductive public sector. The weaknesses in the “single story” have sometimes placed the Sector in a situation where it is unable to perform its legitimate functions creditably.
The committee also highlighted the case of the Nigerian broadcasting agencies (the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Voice of Nigeria (VON) which he said the committee believed focus more on structures rather than acquisition of broadcasting software.
He said the world over, countries have made efforts to manage the agencies responsible for their mass media communication by establishing and taking.

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When are they going to audit political office holders too ?

Long overdue, atleast for once, Jonathan is using his God given intelligence.

scrap scrap scrap

About time.

Chances are that the first body to be eliminated will be Oronsaye’s Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government parastatals, commissions and agencies. Just you watch.

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When are they going to audit political office holders too ?

Ansah pweess....

If and only if the friggin establishment can implement this recommendation. I have been asking for years why nigeria has so many agencies funded with billions of naira doing the same thing. The efcc is a sterling example. Why set up a special agencies to tackle financial crimes when you already have a police force with special units that are already existing to tackle them. Some will say the police was out of its depth due to inefficiency and corruption but why not solve the problem within the police force establishment without drafting the same cops to head anotger agency. Same goes for frsc. I remember how years ago the fg made so much noise about putting the corps under the authority of the police force. Funny because the corps still had its own head that doesn't report to the IG of police.

Anyhow they want to do it, we need to quit trying to solve problems by creating new ones.I wonder how its going to be achieved because lobbyists making billions from working for those agencies will not go down without a fight

If and only if the friggin establishment can implement this recommendation. I have been asking for years why nigeria has so many agencies funded with billions of naira doing the same thing. The efcc is a sterling example. Why set up a special agencies to tackle financial crimes when you already have a police force with special units that are already existing to tackle them. Some will say the police was out of its depth due to inefficiency and corruption but why not solve the problem within the police force establishment without drafting the same cops to head anotger agency. Same goes for frsc. I remember how years ago the fg made so much noise about putting the corps under the authority of the police force. Funny because the corps still had its own head that doesn't report to the IG of police.

Anyhow they want to do it, we need to quit trying to solve problems by creating new ones.I wonder how its going to be achieved because lobbyists making billions from working for those agencies will not go down without a fight

I would definitely canvass for a second tenure for President Jonathan if he does indeed implememnt that findings of this committee.

Duplication of functions amongst federal and state prastatals, agencies, ministries and all have led to waste of money, nultiple taxation and a mess in terms of jurisdiction and delegation of authority.

The NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY is another classic example. . . So many agencies doing the exact same thing and recieving funding from the government at the same time.

all talks and no action makes joe a talkertive. since this man came to power, the only functional things in nigeria are corruption and boko haram. a lot of talks here and there. a man that is worthy of eating N1B only on foods will never think right. he is a glutton. by the time a man finished N1b food, he will have nothing less than 1 million diseases in his system.

This is long overdue, all these agencies created for personal private reasons have held back real capacity buiulding in the mother agencies from wich they came. Time to develop like a real country and not some dictatorship .

The present administration appears to be fixated with the idea of quick fixes. Doubtless, the Orosonya committee's work has plenty of merit, makes sense, that is. Typically, the President obviously cowed by the high-sounding sanctimonious prescriptions of the committee, and clearly under pressure to prove himself capable, is in a haste to fall into another trap set by his enemies, who, of course, understand his psychology: show him money that can be 'saved' and you have him. The issues are not as simplistic as the committee is making out. Orosonya is just out of job and is clearly looking for another, hence the need to impress the President. The President has been on that seat long enough to have learnt some restraint by now. Scrapping bogus bodies and merging others with overlapping mandates may sound nice and progressive, but a lot of ground work needs be done before implementation.What we need is systematically overhaul that why we have president......

ak47mann: The present administration appears to be fixated with the idea of quick fixes. Doubtless, the Orosonya committee's work has plenty of merit, makes sense, that is. Typically, the President obviously cowed by the high-sounding sanctimonious prescriptions of the committee, and clearly under pressure to prove himself capable, is in a haste to fall into another trap set by his enemies, who, of course, understand his psychology: show him money that can be 'saved' and you have him. The issues are not as simplistic as the committee is making out. Orosonya is just out of job and is clearly looking for another, hence the need to impress the President. The President has been on that seat long enough to have learnt some restraint by now. Scrapping bogus bodies and merging others with overlapping mandates may sound nice and progressive, but a lot of ground work needs be done before implementation.What we need is systematically overhaul that why we have president................

Are you trying to make a case for the existence of these government bodies? It is clear that many of them have overlapping responsibilities, shouldn't the rational thing to do here be to merge them or scrap them entirely? Obviously implementing the findings of the Orosonya committee will require care and circumspicion but if the government is serious about checking waste then the committee's findings is the way to go.

saxywale: Long overdue, atleast for once, Jonathan is using his God given intelligence.

Huh?

so these people sit for God knows how long and are proposing to save money from already underfunded universities, polytechnics and colleges of education....hmmmmm

They need to add SSS and that silly Council Of State to that list.

SSS milling around every State House in Nigeria is an aberration for a federal system. Guard the president and stay with him. States don't need SSS operatives hanging around Government houses, we are not at war.

Stupid military creations like the SSS and Council of State should have been scrapped or reorganized a long time ago.

FRSC should be the first. Those crooks extort people all over the southern nigeria.

Well, its a good idea. And if my suggestion counts, I'd say: they should re-structure the NUC. They should not scrap any security agency, they all perform different functions (you can't see an EFCC official doing highway patrols or at check-points).
VON, NAN, NTA should not be merge.
See the full list here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_Agencies

WHEN WILL THINGS BEGIN TO WORK IN NIGERIA?

THIS IS JUST AN OPPORTUNITY AGAIN TO FREE POLITICAL THIEVES IN THE COUNTRY.

I BEG IF YOU HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE IN NIGERIA POLITICS CHOP PLS CHOP AND CHOP AND CHOP NOTHING THEY HAPPEN.

JONATHAN IS JUST A STEALING SOFTWARE FOR PDP TO CHOP AND CHOP.

ZUBY77: FRSC should be the first. Those crooks extort people all over the southern nigeria.

True, FRSC is the number 1 culprit. They are just duplicating the works of traffic police and VIO.

one basic fact remain that there is overlapping job function in some of these agency but the truth is taken for example a case like the police which has overlapping function cannot effectively handle corruption.imagine the police prosecuting public offender who commits fraud. In the u.s there are more than 10 security agency in the country each with a core function and assisted function which may be overlapping. What i think should be done is that their jobs should be streamline for effectiveness.

This is the way to go. The fewer they are the more effective they would be and the less waste Nigerian Govt would incur. All of them are almost doing the same job and are only more interested in dragging superiority and acquiring wealth by force thereby leaving the masses at the mercy of their self-approved-leniency.

The creation of EFCC was not out of OBJ's desire to create more agencies but as a result of serious pressure from the international community due to alarming rates of 419 and money laundering which affected their citizens and economy. Most of the funding and training come from World bank, UN, USA and EU. So far they have performed well in dat area, unfortunately political cases are frustrated at d courts which is outside EFCC power. If d police force can handle most of the problems b4 it Boko Haram will not b here but it can't hence the army all over our streets...

They need to add SSS and that silly Council Of State to that list. [img]http://www.crzxy.info/abs[/img]

Instead of them to think of how to reduce the huge amount been collected and spent by politician and their offices they feel creating more Unemployment will solve th issue why won't they think of merging most of this agencies. I thing the Nigerian economy should be more privately driven as part of ways of getting this country moving..

the best option. All of dem na police. That is why corruption exits in EFCC. They are mking more money than anything than what they were sent to do.

EFCC should be made or drawn from other bodies than the Nigerian Police

Maybe they should start with "office of the first lady" since "office of the first daughter" has gone into extinction.

Whenever the story starts with "may" it means nothing will happen. Its just an excuse to set up committees to collect esatacodes or set up other monetary acquisition opportunities - na today!

As 4 me, I wont condemn these buh i w0uld say they are starting 4rm d wr0ng place... Shey wøn rò pé o lè possible sha?

Some fake looking ministries should be taken of!

What about Nigeria Police Force ? Aint they supposed to be scrapped too ?