The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership has said that the implementation of the Oronsaye Report will sanitise the Civil Service.
Following the directive given by the President on the implementation of the report, many assessments have been carried out on its benefits.
It was revealed that the Federal Government of Nigeria could save over N241bn if the Stephen Oronsaye report on public sector reforms was implemented.
Speaking in an interview with Sunday PUNCH, the Executive Director of CACOL, Debo Adeniran, said that the execution of the report would rejig the civil service.
Adeniran revealed that it would expose corrupt individuals in Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
He said, “It is just that it may lead to the sanitisation of the Civil Service. Those who have committed serious financial offences and fraud should be looked into even if they have been pardoned, and those who have queries and traces of dishonesty in their files should be shown the way out because there are many honest people waiting to be absorbed.
“Some in the Civil Service have falsified their ages. They could falsify any document. These are people who ask for inducement from people who need their services. These are the people to be shown the way out by implementing this report.”
Meanwhile, a lawyer, Alabi Ayokunmi, said the Oronsaye report was particularly concerned with cutting the cost of governance.
He said, “Assuming without conceding that it will truly cut the cost of governance, it will not remove the key problem of corruption, incompetence and deliberate waste of funds. It will also not reduce the number of aides used by key legislative officers.”
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