FG begins implementation of Oronsanye report

The Federal Government has quietly begun implementing the recommendations of the Steve Oronsaye Report on the restructuring of government agencies and departments, over a decade after its submission.

According to Western Post, President Tinubu ordered the immediate execution of the report to reduce governance costs.

Recall that the president formed a committee, led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, three months ago to implement the report within 12 weeks.

The deadline expired over a month ago.

It has now been confirmed that the committee has started the implementation process.

A memo signed by the SGF, directed to one of the ministers, mandated the immediate dissolution of certain firms, including the Nigerian Films and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), which will now be integrated as a department within the ministry instead of operating as a separate federal agency.

This directive was conveyed in a letter signed by George Akume on June 21.

The ministry has been instructed to complete the administrative and financial processes to wind down the NFVCB within three weeks and to report on the transition within the first month after it becomes a department of the ministry.

The memo read:

“Accordingly, the Ministry of Art, Culture & Creative Economy is hereby mandated to initiate all necessary administrative/ financial processes and procedures that will lead to the winding down of the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board and subsequent scrapping for It to function as a Department in the Ministry within three weeks of the receipt of this communication.

“The scrapping feedback should be made to the undersigned within the first 30 days of being a Department under the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture & Creative Economy.”

The government also clarified that this restructuring will not lead to job losses among civil servants but is aimed at reducing governance costs under President Tinubu’s administration.