From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja Tuesday, April 17 , 2012
The Federal Government may scrap the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and 35 other agencies any movement from now. This is the recommendation of the Oronsaye’s Presidential committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government parastatals, commissions and agencies.
The committee said from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) alone, four agencies, the FRSC, EFCC, ICPC, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, have been created, thereby duplicating functions.
The committee’s Chairman, Stephen Oronsaye, while giving insight into the report in his remarks during the presentation held at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, recommended the reduction of the existing 263 statutory agencies to 161. Oronsaye was Head of Civil Service of the Federation. The report was submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan.
He said in all, the committee recommended the abolition of 38 agencies, merger of 52 and reversion of 14 agencies to departments in the relevant ministries.
The committee, according to him, also recommended the management audit of 89 agencies capturing biometric features of staff as well as the discontinuation of government funding of professional bodies/councils.
In all, Oronsaye said if the committee’s report was adopted and agencies reduced in accordance with the recommendation, government would save over N862 billion between this year and 2015.
The breakdown showed that about N124.8 billion would be reduced from agencies proposed for abolition; about N100.6 billion from agencies proposed for mergers; about N6.6 billionn from professional bodies; N489.9 billion from universities; N50.9 billion from polytechnics; N32.3 billion from colleges of education and N616 million from boards of Federal Medical Centres.
The committee described as “a fundamental breach of acceptable practice of good public sector governance to create a new agency or institution as a response to the seeming failure or poor performance of an existing agency in order to suit political or individual interests”, as well as “misadventure in the public sector at a great cost to government”, the setting up of FRSC to take over partially the functions already apportioned by law to the Federal Ministry of Works and the NPF as a result of seeming poor performance and/or to satisfy political and individual interests.
The committee also observed that the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) is duplicating the function already assigned by law to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), noting that “besides being a clear case of latter-day overlapping functions of agencies, the continued existence of NOSDRA is tantamount to paying huge salaries to persons who do nothing, but wait for spills to occur. This is despite the fact that there is a standard operating procedure for oil companies in Nigeria to clean up oil spill whenever it occurs”.
The committee also noted that three agencies: the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), the Nomadic Education Commission (NEC), and the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NCMLA) all perform functions related to the provision of basic education.
“The question then arises as to why they continue to function as separate bodies. Our committee is of the view that the functions of all the other agencies should be taken over by UBEC as there is no economic gain in having the three bodies as separate entities”.
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