Long Walk to Orosanye Bus Stop

It took twelve years to walk to the Orosanye Bus stop.The Steve Orosanye committee commissioned by the Goodluck Jonathan administration had long submitted its report, on how to restructure the civil service with the aim of cutting down on governance cost. That the Jonathan administration commissioned the committee, in the first place, showed that he was genuinely concerned about the cost of governance. So, having received the report, what stopped him from implementing it? Did Jonathan fear that implementing the recommendations thereof could adversely affect his electoral chances in 2015? Well, without implementing the report, he yet lost out at the polls. Why did he simply lock up the report and choose to carry on as if nothing was wrong with the system? Former President Muhammadu Buhari was too busy with his organized inefficiency to even remember there was any suchreport anywhere. So, he glided over it. The details of the report clearly shows how wasteful government has been over the years. It has taken the courageous Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration to exhume the report and commanded its full implementation in twelve weeks. Two weeks has passed. Ten weeks more. We wait and watch what will change in the public sector. Will the money saved from the reforms be visible and accountable? Will it be like the money saved from the “subsidy is gone” proclamation? I dare say that unless the money that will be saved from the implementation of the report helps to improve the Human development Index (hdi) of Nigerians, it will be a journey of vacuous inanity.