THE MAN STEVE ORONSAYE WILL REMAIN A ROLE MODEL FOR DILIGENT CIVIL SERVANTS WORLD WIDE!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 206. 23rd July, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE MAN STEVE ORONSAYE WILL REMAIN A ROLE MODEL FOR DILIGENT CIVIL SERVANTS WORLD WIDE!

The name Stephen Osagiede Oronsaye, (CFR), is one that cannot be easily forgotten amongst retired, recent and serving crop of Nigerian Civil Servants, - especially the PERMANENT SECRETARIES AND DIRECTORS, whose positions were re-designated as NON-PERMANENT through the sweeping reforms under his watch within 17 months as Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF)!
Shortly on assumption of office in June 2009, Steve, as he was fondly addressed, convinced the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission to establish A NEW TENURE POLICY which limited the TERMS of Permanent Secretaries and directors to EIGHT YEARS - a directive which forced NINE Permanent Secretaries and several Directors to retire in October 2009 and many more Directors in January 2010! Before the advent of Oronsaye as the boss, the post of a Permanent Secretary according to its nomenclature, was very secured and PERMANENT until retirement but as soon as the beat changed, newly appointed officers of that cadre were warned that their appointments could be terminated at any point in time for reasons of poor performances, if they failed continuous assessments ratings that were being introduced!

As a well-groomed Chartered Accountant at the age of 45, Steve joined the Federal Ministry of Finance (December,1995), as Director, Special Duties responsible for the merger of the Administrative and Accounting functions of the State House Computerization of processes and procedures of the personnel records, including accounts and access controls for the offices.
In his 15-year stint as a civil servant he served as the Principal Private Secretary to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo,  from 1999, headed the Committee on the Review of Civil Service Rules and Financial Regulations, in 2006, appointed Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, on 20th August, 2008, and Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF), in June 2009. Other patriotic and nationalistic reforms designed to enhance productivity in the Federal Civil Service by Oronsaye include the following: Reassertion of compulsory retirement age for civil servants to remain at 60 years or 35 years of pensionable service - whichever came first, contrary to the clamour for an extension of service to 65 years of age! (November, 2009).

When in August 2009, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), was to sack the Board of Five Banks and publish the list of debtors, Oronsaye directed Permanent Secretaries to prevent Ministries, Departments and Agencies, (MDAs), from either withdrawing funds or closing down accounts in those banks with a view to exposing collusion or complicity on all sides!  In that same month, he announced a major reshuffle where almost half of the permanent secretaries were assigned to new departments three months later.
In November 2009, he directed that TELEVISION SETS be removed from all Civil Service Offices, on the basis that viewing of news or movies during working hours was detrimental to diligence and productivity. In the same month, Oronsaye began the initiative in respect of wage increases for Federal Civil Servants with late President, Umar Yar'Adua and in December, 2009, he announced plans to train 4,600 civil servants by March 2010 to prepare them for the higher challenges that would accompany the new trend of reforms and the new Tenure Policy for permanent secretaries and directors! Steve Oronsaye was appointed by ex-President Ebele Jonathan as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force (PCFATF), to rationalize Federal Government! organisations in order to reduce wastages through duplication of MDAs and Federal appointments.

THE STEVE ORONSAYE PANEL REPORT.
No patriotic Nigerian would have expected anything less than the idealistic, comprehensive, cogent, pungent, informative and precise proposal by the Chairman of PCFATF and his team, that at least a total of 102 Agencies, - including the EFCC and ICPC, should be EITHER MERGED, SCRAPPED, COMMERCIALIZED, SELF SUSTAINED OR SELF-FUNDING!
For instance, three Aviation Agencies were recommended for merger:
1. Nigerian Airspace Management Agency;
2. Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority; and
3. Nigerian Meteorological Agency, were to fuse into one body to be christened, Federal Civil Aviation Authority while their respective enabling laws would be amended accordingly to reflect the merger.
Other forms of duplication of ministries include but not limited to the Police Service Commission and the Ministry of Police Affairs, (the present administration has scrapped); and Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Aviation, (which has also been merged by the APC Government), in line with Oronsaye Committee recommendations although the Agencies under the Aviation are still operating separately and duplicating efforts since the report was submitted to the Jonathan's Administration since the year 2013-2014 because it is envisaged that about 7.500 various cadre of Aviation personnel  might lose their jobs! It is believed that the Nigerian Airspace Management Authority alone enjoys the services of 253 Assistant Managers on its pay roll!
It cannot be disputed that all the appointments and the activities of Steve Oransaye were merited because they were based on diligence, uprightness, persistence and the fear of GOD, yet he was believed to have stepped on some "powerful toes" that wanted "his pound of flesh" as it is strongly believed that the EFCC Cases against him had the COLOURATION OF PERSONAL VENDETTA!

ORONSAYE'S ORDEALS!
One of the major recommendations as Chairman of the PCFATF, following his retirement on 16th November, 2010, having attained the statutory age of 60 years, was the MERGER OF EFCC WITH OTHER ANTI- GRAFT AGENCIES IN THE COUNTRY in order to severe the organisation from further USURPING AND MIS-USING the funds of the heavily-internationally financed Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU),  under its watch, in compliance with international graft and anti-money laundering agencies, pact!
EFCC did not waste time to arraign Oronsanye to court on a two-count charge before it was later change to seven as he was alleged to have used his position as Chairman of PCFATF between 2013 and 2014, to convert the sum of N190 million naira, belonging to the Committee to his personal use. In the amended charge, the ex-HOSF was accused of criminal breach of trust involving allegations that between 2013 and 2015, he diverted the total sum of N 382.9 million naira, belonging to the Committee to his personal use. EFCC also alleged that he sourced the sum of N 382.9 million from the CBN and the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), in the name of PCFATF and deposited same in a secret account with ACCESS BANK PLC  without the knowledge of other members of the Committee. It was also alleged by EFCC that Oronsaye invested the money at 9% interest rate in the said secret account which he allegedly opened and operated unilaterally as the sole signatory, unknown to other Committee members adding that the only account known to all members was the one kept with ZENITH BANK PLC.

STEVE ORONSAYE IS VINDICATED BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION!
It is written: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD, delivereth him out of them all." (Psalm 34:19). In a very sound judgment delivered by a Federal Capital Territory (FCT), High Court Judge, Justice Olasumbo Goodluck, held that the EFCC failed to establish a prima facie criminal case against STEVE OSAIGEDE ORONSAYE, THE DEFENDANT following a no-case submission which he made through his counsel!
Justice Olasumbo agreed with the defendant that the anti-graft agency FAILED to establish any element of crime in the SEVEN-COUNT CHARGE it entered before the court and enumerated the following cogent reason:
1. Most of the witnesses gave contradictory evidence in the course of trial.
2. There was no basis for the court to compel the defendant to enter his defence to the charge.
3. Prosecution witnesses contradicted themselves on whether the defendant was still HOSF when he chaired PCFATF.
4. No evidence linked the accused with the statutory element and ingredients of the offence with which he was charged.
5. Court has no business scouting for evidence for the prosecution.

DEFENDANT IS DISCHARGED - QED!
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), no doubt gave every reason for discernable minds to believe that Steve Oronsaye's recommendation did not go down with the Agency through its exhibition of animosity and an uncontrollable desperation through the amended charges which fell like a pack of cards at the court. We gave a sigh of relief when the judgment which was delivered in MAY 2017, eventually put the entire sad episode against a highly-revered, highly rated, diligent and dedicated, SERVANT LEADER to rest at long last and we give to God the glory that his good works could not be soiled by the agency which, though had the powers to PROSECUTE BUT COULD NOT TO JUDGE!
GOVERNMENT'S WHITE PAPER ON ORONSAYE'S REPORT MUST BE QUICKLY APPROVED, NOW THAT THE MAN HAS BEEN EXONORATED! WASTAGES IN GOVERNMENT MUST STOP WITH THE APC'S CHANGE GOVERNMENT PLEASE!
POSTERITY WILL REMEMBER STEPHEN OSAGIEDE OROSANYE AS ONE MAN WHO STOOD FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND EQUITY, EVEN WHEN HE SERVED IN THE MOST CORRUPT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP), WHICH FOISTED UNTOLD HARDSHIP ON THE DOWNTRODDEN MASSES THROUGH MASSIVE WASTAGES OF THE COMMON WEALTH! LIES MAY TRAVEL FAR FOR SEVERAL YEARS; TRUTH WILL ALWAYS OVERTAKE IT AND WIN THE RACE! LET US ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT ONLY RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL EXALT A NATION BECAUSE SIN CONSTITUTES A REPROACH TO ALL PEOPLE!

"See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not shall not stand before mean men. (Prov 22:29)

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