The federal government is to save a whopping N100 billion from reduced allocation to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) with overlapping functions.

[b]The government, which has started implementing the Steve Oronsaye Report which proposed the scrapping or merging of such MDAs began in the 2013 budget to trim allocations to agencies with duplicate functions, since scrapping them cannot be implemented immediately. The expected result of this budgetary slash for the affected MDAs will be a saving of about N100 billion in 2013 by the government.

Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister for Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who made this known at the 2013 budget briefing in Abuja, said that some the MDAs were created by Acts enacted by the National Assembly, accordingly, only a repeal of the Act can scrap them.

Okonjo-Iweala, said “we are continuing the roll-out of Integrated Personnel Payment Information System (IPPIS) across all MDAs which will result in savings in personnel costs. In the spirit of the Oronsaye Report, we have started trimming down allocations to agencies with duplicate functions. For the 2013 Budget, this resulted in about N100 billion of savings, and we hope to have even greater savings in 2014” she said.

However, since some of these agencies with duplicate functions were established legally, the minister of finance said the executive “will require the support of the National Assembly in reviewing the relevant legislations before we implement the rationalisation exercises.”

The minister said that the cost of governance had reduced adding that for instance, the share of recurrent spending in total expenditure has reduced from 74.4 per cent in 2011 to 67.5 per cent in 2013 She said the government had sustained its policy of re-balancing its expenditure in favour of capital investment over the medium term. She said, “The share of recurrent spending in total expenditure has reduced from 74.4 per cent in 2011 to 67.5 per cent in 2013[/b].

“Similarly, capital spending as a share of total expenditure has increased from 25.6 per cent in 2011 to 32.5 per cent in 2013.”

http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/49501/2013/03/08/fg_slashes_n100bn_allocation_mdas_overlapping_functions.html

A week or so ago, I saw this article, which I believe is also in the spirit of the Implementation of this Oronsaye's Report.

But the question is: is this the full implementation of the report? Does anybody here have the report?

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the restructuring of the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation to enable it fast track the development of the country.

He made this known in Abuja on Friday at a formal send-off ceremony for two past Heads of Service of the Federation, Mr Stephen Oronsaye and Prof. Oladapo Afolabi.
The president was represented by Vice President Namadi Sambo.

He said his administration was committed to the transformation of the service into an enviable and modern institution capable of supporting the political leadership in its effort to fast track the development of Nigeria.

``It is in line with this thinking that I have recently approved the restructuring of the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation to enable it drive the transformation of the service. It is envisaged that at the end of the restructuring, the present five office structure would be reduced to three.

``It will lead to slimmer, more efficient and fit-for-purpose organisation devoid of overlaps, duplications and fragmentation, more responsive and better able to provide quality management, direction and guidance to the Federal Civil Service,” he added.

He, therefore, urged the Head of Civil Service of the Federation to ensure that the implementation of the restructuring of his office was carried out to the letter.

Jonathan said that ``this is to enable our quest for a responsible civil service and one that takes cognisance of the need to deliver is achieved.
http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/jonathan-orders-restructuring-office-head-service

Good. Very Good... At last.

nameo:

A week or so ago, I saw this article, which I believe is also in the spirit of the Implementation of this Oronsaye's Report.

But the question is: is this the full implementation of the report? Does anybody here have the report?

This is not d full implementatn. They are probably trying to implement it in bits cos sm of d agencies are Legal Entities that can only be properly scrappd by d National Assembly (its even there in d article).... I also wud want to see d full WHITE paper of d report too..