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FEC Approves Merges, Scraping, Relocation Of Agencies In Order To Reduce Cost of Governance

27 February

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the full implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye Panel report to merge some parastatals, agencies, and some commissions, while others will be subsumed, scrapped or relocated.



The decision was made at the FEC meeting chaired by President Bola Tinubu on Monday.


 


This, according to the Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, Hadiza Bala Usman, is in line with the need to reduce cost of governance and streamline efficiency across the governance value chain.


 


 


To ensure the implementation of the proposed changes, FEC set up an eight-man committee with the mandate to implement the mergers, scrapings, and relocations within 12 weeks.


 


The committee comprised Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Head of the Civil Service, Attorney General and Justice Minister, Budget and Planning Minister, DG Bureau of Public Service Reform, Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, Special assistant to the president on National Assembly. The Cabinet Affairs Office will serve as the secretariat.


 


FEC also received a report from the inter-ministerial panel set up to review the affairs of the National Social Investment Programme.


 


The Council further approved the immediate restart of the direct payments to 12 million households comprising 60 million Nigerians with key provisos.


In 2011, then President Goodluck Jonathan set up the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies with Oronsaye as chairman.


 


In 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.


 


There were some motion without movement on the report during ex-President Muhammadu Buhari eight years in office but the new government said implementing the report aligned with its cost-cutting measures.


 


AGENCIES TO BE SCRAPPED


1. Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate to be scrapped and functions transferred to the Federal Ministry of Finance


2. National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) to be scrapped and functions transferred to the department of Basic and Secondary Education in Federal Ministry of Education.


 


AGENCIES TO BE MERGED


1. National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) to be merged under the Centre for Disease Control in Federal Ministry of Health.


2. National Emergency Agency (NEMA) to be merged with National Commission Refugee, Migration and Internally Displaced persons [NCFRMI].


3. Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA) to be merged with Directorate of Technical Aid (DTAC) and to function as a department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


4. Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC) to be merged with Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE).


5. Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) to be merged with Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC).


6. National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to be merged with National Centre for Agriculture Mechanization (NCAM) and Project Development Institute (PRODA).


7. National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) to be merged with National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB).


8. National Institute for Leather Science Technology (NILEST) to be merged with National Institute for Chemical Technology (NARICT).


9. The Nomadic Education Commission (NEC) to be merged with National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult Education and Non Formal Education.


10. Federal Radio Corporation (FRCN) to be merged with Voice of Nigeria (VON)


11. The National Commission for Museums and Monuments to be merged with National gallery of Arts.


12. The National Theatre to be merged with National Troupe of Nigeria.


13. The National Metallurgical Development Centre (NMDC) to be merged with National Metallurgical Training Institute (NMTI).


14. Nigerian Army University (NAUB)should be merged Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA)


 


15. Airforce Institute of Technology (AFIT) should be merged Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA)


 


AGENCIES TO BE SUBSUMED


1. Service Compact with all Nigerians (SERVICOM) to be subsumed to function as a department under Bureau for Public Service Reforms (BPSR).


2. Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA) to be subsumed to function as a department under the National Boundary Commission (NBC).


3. National Salaries, Income and Wages Commissioned (NSIWC) to be subsumed into Revenue Mobilization & Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMAFC).


4. Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution to be subsumed under Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA)


5. Public Complaints Commission (PCC) to be subsumed under National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).


6. Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis (NITR) to be subsumed into Institute of Veterinary Research (VOM).


7. Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) to be subsumed under the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development


(NIPRD).


8. National Intelligence Agency Pension Commission to be subsumed under the administration of Nigerian Pension Commission (PenCom).


9. The Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) to be subsumed as a department in the Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy.


 


AGENCIES TO BE RELOCATED.


1. Niger Delta Powerholding Company (NDHC) to be relocated to Ministry of power.


2. National Agricultural Land Development Agency [NALDA] to be relocated to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security


3. National Blood Service Commission to be converted into an Agency and relocated to the Federal Ministry of Health


4. Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) to be converted into an Agency and transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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