Arewa Chic

Dear Chief Tinubu, It’s 145 days to the Presidential Election. 145 days for Nigerians to remind you of your many failures. On February 26, 2024, your administration approved the implementation of the Oronsaye Report. You publicised it and patted yourselves for the implementation. Then on March 8, 2024, you inaugurated an 11 member implementation committee, giving them 12 weeks to act. I guess those 12 weeks are yet to come in the “Tinubu’s Calendar”, because 2 years later, there’s still no update or implementation. Infact, 2 years later, there are now even more agencies, some even alleged to be fake, like the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) and National Brands Development, all under your “watchful eye” . We don’t even understand what the Ministry of Livestock Development does but they have received ₦81.19 billion from our National revenue. Ministry of Regional Development got ₦27.23 billion, Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism & Creative Economy got ₦70.30 billion, Ministry of Steel Development received ₦21.52 billion This year, about ₦1.13 trillion has gone to most agencies the Oronsaye Report was supposed to end. ₦1.13 TRILLION. The Oronsaye Report recommended a total abolition of the National Productivity Centre. Yet, the 2026 budget provided ₦110.68 billion for it. Why should Nigerians continue to make sacrifices while government continues to squander resources? If an agency should be abolished, abolish it. If two agencies perform the same function, merge them. The Oronsaye Report recommended merging EFCC, ICPC and CCB to eliminate overlapping functions, yet these agencies are still separately functioning and unnecessarily dragging cases like that of Mallam El-Rufai. Your administration has had more than two years since approving its implementation. That is enough time. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 12-WEEK DEADLINE? This is yet another failure. STEP ASIDE.