The Federal Government has been warned against implementing the Oronsaye Committee's report, which recommended reduction in the size of workforce to cut the cost of governance.

The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital warned that the government would cause chaos in the public service if it implements the report.

The Union, which also gave Federal Government until the end of this month to implement CONTISS 15 for staff of the polytechnics and colleges of education or face another strike, insisted that the report was unacceptable.

President of the union, Comrade Ladi Iliya, said that prunning the workforce would further worsen the unemployment and insecurity in the country.

"We do not believe that the objective of the Federal Government transformation agenda is to send workers into employment market," she said.

She said reducing government statutory agencies as proposed in the report will result to loss of jobs and throw more people into the already saturated market with its attendant economic and social upheavals.

"Our position is that any cutting of cost reform that does not address public looting will amount to an exercise in futility, because the present high cost of governance will persist even if all the recommendations of the Oronsaye Committee's Report are fully implemented," she further said.

She charged that the government in its White Paper must exercise caution and discretion in the choice of what to implement or not.

Rather than cutting the workforce, the labour leader advised that the cost of governance would be reduced considerably if governments execute the war against corruption.

"We decry the issue of corruption, which is now an acceptable part of every transaction in the country, whether in the public sectors of the economy. The high cost of running the country is a result of the endemic scourge of corrupt practices, which have long bedevilled the system,"she stressed.