Orosanye Report: HR expert calls for implementation technical committee
*Photo: President Tinubu*
A human resource practitioner, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim, has called for setting-up of an Implementation Technical Committee for the Steve Oronsaye Report on merging and scrapping of some Federal Agencies following the approval given by the Federal Executive Council on Monday for its implementation.
Alh. Ibrahim who is a retired director from the Kwara State Public Service and a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) identified lack of political-will, corruption and bureaucracy as impendiments that have militated against the implementation of the Report since the last ten years; pointing-out that the setting-up of a Technical Committee comprising of qualified and competent Public Administrators for its implemention would achieve the laudable goals once and for all.
He said several pronouncements of implementation of the Report have been made in the last 10 years without effect as some Chief Executives of some affected Agencies and Parastatals were reportedly moving round to lobby Top Government Functionaries so that the implementation of the Report would not be posssible; as they want to retain their jobs.
While commending President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for directing the implementation of the Report, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim said costs of governance, duplication of responsibilities and overlapping of functions have contributed to low performance at higher costs, stressing that if the Report is properly implemented, effectiveness and efficiency would feature in governance in Nigeria.
On Constitution Amendment, he called for a shift by National Assembly Members from using the exercise to deceive the masses; as according to him the exercise had been in futility in the last 10 years with billions of Naira wasted on it by the Legislature without implementation of the adopted amendments thereby leading to total waste of funds.
He also condemned the over-bearing influence of State Governors on Members of their States Assemblies that has turned the whole Constitution Amendments exercise into jamborees and waste of funds without any tangible results. He called for total independence of Legislators in all States as well as democratisation of party nomination for offices at States and Local Governments Levels.
He warned against Constitution Amendments that favour the legislators and politicians rather than the masses, citing example of the continued retention of States Independent Electoral Commission (SIECs) and granting of gratuity and pension to Former Governors as inappropriate provisions that should be removed from the Nation’s Constitution. He called for Local Government Elections to be transferred to INEC and adoption of Parliamentary System of governance in Nigeria to save costs and improve governance in Nigeria.
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