IMPLEMENTING REFORMS: Agencies Recommended for Scrapping will receive no Budget Allocation.

Director General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dr. Joe Abah

The Director General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dr. Joe Abah has said that some Agencies recommended for scrapping by the Stephen Oronsaye led Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies would not be given any budgetary allocation for overheads and capital expenditure this year. Staff of the organisations will however continue to receive salaries and will be deployed to other organisations.

Dr. Abah who revealed this recently while fielding questions with reporters in Abuja said that these arrangements will be in place pending when the laws establishing them would be abrogated.

On challenges facing the Bureau, Dr. Abah said that the major one is the cynicism of many Nigerians who believe that nothing would ever work again and the lack of adequate funding.

Culled from Reformer Monthly