Tinubu Implements Oronsaye Report On Federal Parastatals, To Scrap, Merge Govt Agencies

President Bola Tinubu has ordered the full implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye report.

Consequently, it announced the merging, subsuming, scrapping, and relocation of several government agencies. ⁣

The President’s decision was announced by a presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, in a post on X.

“Twelve years after the Steve Oronsaye panel submitted its report on restructuring and rationalizing federal government parastatals and agencies and a white paper issued two years later, President Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council today decided to implement the report.

“Many agencies will be scrapped and many others will be merged, to pave the way for a leaner government,” he said.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, also confirmed this to State House Correspondents after Monday’s Federal Executive Council meeting at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. ⁣

“So in a very bold move today, this administration, under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, consistent again with his courage to take very far-reaching decisions in the interest of Nigeria, has taken a decision to implement the so-called Oronsaye Report.

“Now, what that means is that a number of agencies, commissions, and some departments have been scrapped. Some have been modified, and marked, while others have been subsumed. Others, of course, have also been moved from some ministries to others where the government feels they will operate better,” said Idris. ⁣