With the scrapping of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE), National Examinations Council (NECO), Public Complaints Commission (PCC) and National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), among others and merging them with related institutions, the Federal Government may have commenced the implementation of the Steve Oronsaye report that recommended the streamlining of agencies and parastatals to cut the cost of government. The committee clearly favoured a leaner government. We agree because as the report noted, most of the agencies and parastatals were mere duplicates and shelters of corruption. A good example is the West African Examination Council and NECO; or the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board and the universities.
Some of them were actually directorates of ministries which assumed bureaucratic lives of their own.
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