The Federal Government is working out all necessary modalities to ensure a smooth implementation of the Oronsanye Report.
Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, gave this assurance while speaking with reporters on Tuesday after a visit to the headquarters of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in Abuja.
He also shut down suggestions that the report has been thrown under the carpet or is being ignored.
However, he said there is no timeline yet to implement the report.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) chaired by President Bola Tinubu, had in February, approved the full implementation of the Oronsaye Report that recommended that some parastatals, agencies, and some commissions be merged, and others subsumed, scrapped, or relocated.
The government further set up an eight-man committee with the mandate to make recommendations on mergers, scrapings, and relocations within 12 weeks.
However, six months later, the report has not been implemented.
The Oronsaye report is expected to reduce the cost of governance and streamline efficiency across the governance value chain.
In 2011, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan set up the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions, and Agencies with Steve Oronsaye as chairman.
On April 16, 2012, the committee submitted an 800-page report identifying, amongst several other things, overlapping agencies, causing wastage in expenditure.
The report said there were 541 parastatals, commissions, and agencies and recommended that 263 of the agencies should be reduced to 161, 38 agencies abolished and 52 merged.
