The Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Mr Dasuki Arabi, has reaffirmed the Federal Government’s determination to carry out recommendations by the committees on Oronsaye’s Whitepaper to ensure its implementation.

Arabi gave the assurance when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum on Sunday in Abuja. The whitepaper is to ensure reduction in the cost of governance through the restructuring and rationalisation of Federal Government agencies.

Following the delay in the implementation of the initiative, the Federal Government recently reconstituted two sub-committees on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Agencies and Commissions.

And the other committee is to review new agencies created after the submission of the report from 2014 to date.

According to Arabi, who is also a member of the sub-committee, government has been looking at the recommendations to effect the reports

“The most difficult thing to drive is change, and where that change is expected to come, there are lots of implications.

“Government needs to be very careful in carrying out that, especially looking at our size, our diversity, and the issues and problems that we are facing as a nation. ”

To propel the implementation of the whitepaper, the BPSR boss confirmed that the two committees had carefully re-examined issues recommended in the reports

“The report was submitted to Federal Government on Tuesday and it will be transmitted to the president for his consideration and for other directives, ” he said.

Arabi said the Federal Governments was determined not to look backward but to continue in its transformation initiative and to reform the public service to implement the needed changes.NAN