Former Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu has explained why Fomer President Muhammadu Buhari did not implement Oronsanye ‘s report.
Accordin to Shittu who was a minister during Buhari’s first tenure in the office, the report was not presented to Buhari, hence it was not implemented because nobody brought it up.
Recall that there was a controversy over the report since the Federal Government approved the implementation of some of its recommendations to reduce the cost of governance.
Twenty-nine government agencies are expected to be merged, even as eight parastatals will be subsumed into eight other agencies.
Sharing his thoughts on the development, Shittu said that civil servants should not be afraid of job losses, adding that only politicians would be affected.
According to Shittu; “The report had been with the previous government (Jonathan’s) but they didn’t do anything. Nobody brought it to our (Buhari government’s) attention, at least not when I was there. So, the issue never came up for discussion at the Federal Executive Council meeting at all. If nobody brought it and there were no complaints, we didn’t have cause to look at it at all.”
Also he added; “We must avoid or do away with duplication of services because that would increase the cost of governance. When we talk about some people losing jobs, I think that national interest is more important than personal interest, and I don’t see any civil servant losing his job on that.”
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