The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, announced that many government agencies will be eliminated or combined to reduce the cost of governance significantly.
Onanuga made this announcement in a post on his official social media account on Monday. He mentioned that the President will be implementing recommendations from the Steve Oronsaye panel report, which was submitted during the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2011.
He stated that the decision to follow the Oronsaye panel report’s recommendations was made after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Monday.
The post by Onanuga read, “President Tinubu cuts cost of governance by implementing Oronsaye Report.
“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 after, 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 way to a leaner government.”
In 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan established the Steve Oronsaye’s Panel. The committee presented an 800-page report on April 16, 2012, suggesting the elimination and consolidation of 102 government agencies and parastatals. Some were also proposed to become self-sustaining.
