poiu77:
NTA should be sold station by station to the private sector.. except if they are located in the 10 state state of Western Nigeria. Their name should change to Western Nigeria television service.

Gbawe:


Indeed. As some of us have always argued, the brilliant templates and recommendations, with which to transform Nigeria for the better, have always being available to all incoming governments since 1999. It is political will that has been lacking. This is what Nigerians are sure Buhari will bring that will set him apart from others before him to the benefit and glory of Nigeria.

It would be recalled that following public outcry over the high cost of governance in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan on August 18, 2011, inaugurated a committee to restructure and rationalise the federal government agencies, with former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, as its chairman. The committee’s mandate included, among others, to: study and review all previous reports/records on the restructuring of federal parastatals and advise on whether they are still relevant or not; examine critically the mandates of the existing federal agencies, parastatals and commissions and determine areas of overlap or duplication of functions and make appropriate recommendations.

At the end of its assignment, the committee recommended the abolition of 38 agencies, merger of 52 and reversion of 14 agencies to departments in the relevant ministries. The committee also recommended the conduct of management audit for 89 agencies to capture the biometric features of staff as well as the discontinuation of government funding of professional bodies/councils. A breakdown of what would be saved from the exercise gave N124.8bn from agencies proposed for abolition; N100.6bn from agencies proposed for mergers; N6.6bn from professional bodies; N489.9bn from universities; N50.9bn from polytechnics; N32.3bn from colleges of education and N616m from boards of federal medical centres. In summary, the committee recommended the scrapping of 102 statutory agencies from the current 263, abolition of 38 agencies, merger of 52 and reversion of 14 to departments in the ministries. The 800-page report also recommended the discontinuation of government funding of professional bodies and councils.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:



You have just lied again by withholding the truth and hiding the origin of this said template and report, not forgetting that the opposition never supported it.

This report is a transformation agenda of President Jonathan and not a Change document rather continuation of TAN hence Buhari will soon be a TANoid

semitunde:



Yet the JonaTAN government is the highest in recurrent expenditure and debt allocation. Why didn't it take its own advise?

semitunde:



Yet the JonaTAN government is the highest in recurrent expenditure and debt allocation. Why didn't it take its own advise?

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IsraeliAIRFORCE:


After the illogical (not thought after) fuel subsidy protest that led to lost of trust and disapproval of Jonathan's administration by some classes of the citizenry which was unfortunately championed by the Cabals and supported by the opposition, the GEJ administration became sensitive to the social contract hence the will power to implement the Orasanya report without the anger of the Labour Unions and others was lost.

We never supported GEJ enough to fully implement his transformation agenda though they were the best for our country but needed impossible change we can't afford.

tafrica:
Though this maybe a good decision, but have we realised this step only affects the masses? If govt wants to take such steps, he has to show the sacrifice from his own end. Just recently 9bn+ was allotted for allowances of incoming govt (I presume there is no need for cut in that, same old spending), we still have same large nos of Reps and senators when most of them are just useless there collecting fat payment. The governors still receive security votes, even when they claim they are not the C-in-C of their states. Should we go on?
We fail to see that these people are not falsr or ghost workers, they are real workers. Government can search out ghost workers and dump them, but merging some MDAs thereby rendering some people jobless is inhumane.
Government always take austerity measures on masses but they enjoy the prosperity alone when it comes. We shouldn't cheer this decision if govt doesn't take same harsh decision on itself. Why can't we reduce the nos of REPs from states also? Why can't we probably merge some senatorial districts so as to reduce nos of senator we have?
When the effects of this decision bite, many people that hail it will vehemently condemn it.
Ghost workers in the MDAs can be removed.

semitunde:


Oh but the fuel subsidy protest was in support of what the report recommended. The masses didn't want a government so bloated it consumed 70% of its budget, spends more than a billion in kitchen expenses, is irreparably corrupt, was openly supporting the curruption that was the fuel subsidy windfall; all the while telling Nigerians that it was removing said subsidy payments.

Did you see the immoral geometric rise in the amount paid for subsidy within a few years as if population and consumption jumped by same margin? Why didn't the government tell us how they plan to repair the refineries? Those were the issues that brought up the protest.

In the end Nigerians could not trust he's government. Not with the diversion of monies meant for subsidy payment, and we were vindicated when issues of corruption were associated with agencies like SURE P.

Nigerians were effectively saying; "don't stop the only thing the masses benefit from your government until the government itself shows prudence." One of such ways was to cut down the number of MDAs.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:


The Fuel Subsidy protest was an exercise against a purposeful end and fight against corruption in downstream sector of oil and gas.

The implementation of Orasanya report will lead to massive job cut and losses across board with attendant protest and strikes by unions.

What everyday Nigerians and labour unions are clamoring for is drastic reduction in cost of governance.

I support implementation of the report but I speak from a neutral perspective.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:



You have just lied again by withholding the truth and hiding the origin of this said template and report, not forgetting that the opposition never supported it.

This report is a transformation agenda of President Jonathan and not a Change document rather a continuation of TAN hence Buhari will soon be a TANoid

semitunde:


See Nigerians just wanted a revert back to the old pump price. We didn't care how the government did it siince the government itself wasn't sensitive to what it should give more importance to, to alleviate the masses' pains.

At a time when crude oil was selling at record highs, we should have been massively developing the primary infrastructures of the country, yet all we got was increased recurrent expenditure, increase debt and a big hole in our foreign reserve. Several cases of sharing of the excess crude accounts.etc.

Did you join the protest? What were you protesting for if you did?

IsraeliAIRFORCE:


How can I be stupid to support the protest with credible information at my disposal and by virtue of the positions I have occupied as a defender of the poor and a member of civil society.

Politics is not mathematics hence it doesn't go with specific formulas as you presume. Different Interests need to be accommodated if and when the public refuses to speak with one voice and a misconception of who their enemies and friends are.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:



You have just lied again by withholding the truth and hiding the origin of this said template and report, not forgetting that the opposition never supported it.

This report is a transformation agenda of President Jonathan and not a Change document rather a continuation of TAN hence Buhari will soon be a TANoid

semitunde:



Do you know how large our recurrent expenditure is?

Monies meant for capital projects that would help develop social infrastructure, which actually really affect the masses; are used to pay (ghost) workers who more often than not, replicate the functions of another. While some are functioning, won't the ones replicating same functions be rendered redundant or underused and therefore be regarded as ghost workers?

How many are going to be affected by these changes compared to a rise in capital budget that will be used to affect the lives of millions more.

In every situation, decisions you take affect people- innocent or not. You must weight your options and maybe apply the Rotary 4-Way Test to it. Is fair/ beneficial to all concerned? Is it the truth? Will it build better goodwill? If you apply this code to the situation, you'd support the reorganization of those MDAs.

tafrica:


Read me well sir, I am not against this step. All I say is govt should start austerity steps from its end. What austerity are we talking about when Governors still collect "unaccounted-for" security votes every month, same fat furniture allowances for govt officials, same nos of passive legislators who collect fat pays and allowances. Do masses only have to bear the consequences of this present economic hardship.
When govt shows serious austerity measures from its end, people will reason with it. But if govt thinks the only way to cut cost of governance is cutting down civil service, tell me who absorbs them? While our legislators pride around in exotic cars, this step will only breed chaos because it directly affects the masses while the politicians are left unchecked, unless govt shows a commitment by starting from its ends.

Gbawe:


I get your point which is valid and relevant but the Presidency has total discretion over many things that fall under the authority of the executive arm of government. We at least expect Buhari to do what must be done in his area of direct and supreme authority while he works with the legislative arm to get changes he wants for areas where the assent of the NASS is required.