Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has received the Oransanye white paper draft report with recommendations on the Nigerian civil service.
President Muhammadu Buhari had last a week, said the civil service is not a dumping ground for job seekers and that the outcome of the Steve Oransanye white paper review would result in fundamental changes in the structure of the service in the future.
The president had, at an audience with the delegation of the association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria last week, said the civil service should be an ecosystem that must attract the best and brightest in order to solve the nation’s socio-economic problems.
The submission was done by the head of committee, former head of Service of the Federation, Ebele Okeke, which was constituted to draft a white paper on the Amal Pepple Committee report on new parastatals, agencies and commissions created between 2012 and 2021.
The SGF is expected to forward the recommendations to the Federal Executives Council (FEC) for approval before implementation.
He described the report as “a demonstration of the Federal Government’s commitment to reposition the public service for effective service delivery.”
He disclosed that the Buhari’s administration desire to restructure the public service in order to ensure efficiency
He recalled various efforts of the government to address the structural issues within the MDAs with the setting up of the Bukar Aji committee to review the Mohammed Adoke white paper on the Orosanye report on restructuring and rationalisation of the Federal Government parastatals, agencies and commissions (PACs).
He also cited the Ama Pepple committee to review new PACs created between 2012 and October 2021; and the Ebele Okeke committee to draft a white paper on the Amal Pepple committee report on new PACs createdbetween 2012 and 2021.
According to the SGF, the high cost of governance and revenue challenges being experienced in the midst of competing societal demands are of serious concern to the Federal Government, hence restructuring in the public service has become indispensable.
Earlier, Okeke, in her remarks, said the committee had “carried out content analysis of the legal framework setting up the PACs under review, analysis of the budgetary provisions of the PACs for the period under consideration.
“The potential for the PACs to be self-funding over a reasonable period of time as well as access to international sources of funding technology to build up capacity and technical expertise to be self-sustaining were also considered.”
She said the committee “observed that the legal framework/enabling Act of some of the PACs did not clearly define structure, management and oversight,” adding that “most of the laws used agency, commission and board inter-changeably…” – The Sun.
