Dr Joe Abah writes:

Yesterday, the President announced that Ministers will sign a Performance Agreement with him at the end of the ongoing Ministerial Retreat.

Many private sector people hailed it as the introduction of KPIs and targets for Ministers, like is done in the private sector. This is not correct. We have been issuing KPIs and targets to Ministers for at least 11 years now.

Let me give you a bit of the history and explain some of the issues.

KPIs and targets in the public sector actually go back to the Jerome Udoji Report of 1974. The Gowon government ignored it and just implemented the part of it that said public sector should be comparable to private sector pay. They just raised salaries and ignored the performance management part.

President Jonathan issued KPIs and targets to Ministers in 2012 and everyone signed. When we reported the results in 2013, virtually every Minister failed to meet theirs. Some said “Haa! We didn’t know what we were signing then ni o” Others blamed it on lack of funds and not being able to hire and fire.

The President didn’t really push it and in 2014, preparations for elections were already underway. Everyone just moved on.

In 2021, President Buhari set out KPIs and targets for each Minister and everybody signed a Performance Agreement. It was monitored and reported on every year, with the President and the VP attending every session and staying throughout for 2 days.

A Central Coordination and Delivery Unit was set up in the Office of the SGF to independently track and report performance.

The best young minds from the public service was recruited into that unit and they received free technical assistance from one of my projects to train the staff and get it going. However, nobody was ever sanctioned for poor performance. In some cases, some Ministers failed or refused to do some things and this was reported every single year.

For instance, the Attorney General/ Minister for Justice had a target to establish Special Anticorruption Courts. It never happened and was reported every year with the President in attendance. Nothing ever happened.

President Tinubu has set out 8 Priority Areas and 8 Priority Targets. He has warned that Ministers who do not perform will be sacked. He has also fully and very publicly empowered his SA on Policy Coordination and Delivery to track performance, and said that any Minister that has a problem with her should come to him. Will things be different this time?

We wait. End. ✌🏽

@DrJoeAbah (Twitter)

Funny people.

Govt of propaganda. We all know this is nothing but audio KPI under Ebola govt.

Just like filling the assets declaration form and leaving office with stupendous wealth and properties without questions!

LMAO

Lets hope Tinubu is different from the rest.

DMerciful:
Use your head! The taste of the cooking is in the eating. Tinubu and APC already failed, no KPI will bring fuel to N87 and $ to N197 GEJ left it

You sound bitter and hate-filled. Is it because Nigerians rejected the Agulu fraud Obi?

DMerciful:
Point out the data that is incorrect in my post

You have ZERO data. You just have HATE and BITTERNESS. Just like your mentor the Agulu fraud Obi.

Aright

KPI Ko,,keppy ekpeyong ni .

Na KPI & Targets we go chop.

There were regular cabinet reshuffle under GEJ. Under Buhari only death or resignation could change the minister 😆

Dodada:
Lets hope Tinubu is different from the rest.

EyeCumInPeace:
Na KPI we go chop.

Wittyness

If those civil servants allow them

These people rake in billions of taxpayers money yet they have no scorecard to rate them with. This country is truly a tragic comedy

He's ipob
Signed
Zombies

But honestly I don't know how or why you will be giving people performance targets when majority got the jobs based on rewards for loyalty. You don't reward a man and tell him how to enjoy his reward. In private settings, your KPI and performance targets are shared with you before you take on the job and you sign up or not depending on whether you think conditions are OK to meet them.
BTW, Is maintaining political structure part of Wike's target?
Dey play

Hmmmm

What is the definition of KPI again?

KPI or not Failure in Human government all of the world is certain.

They are even confused with challenges

Isesong:
Welcome to Nigeria

the country of no vision and direction

Reading...

Let's go.

So the writer thinks Tinubu is in the same category as Goatluck and Buhari

Tinubu can't select ministers based on political and tribal reason then expect them to perform

Former governor of zamfara as minister of defense will only make the country end up like zamfara in terms of security

Buhari minister of education has no clue about education sector then you wonder why the long ASUU strike

ednut1:
There were regular cabinet reshuffle under GEJ. Under Buhari only death or resignation could change the minister 😆

That Buhari was a mess. He even appointed the dead

Way to go

God bless the president.

God bless Nigeria

God bless me.

nlfpmod:
Dr Joe Abah writes:



@DrJoeAbah (Twitter)

Dr Joe Abah just said nothing.

You claimed this is not correct without providing an alternative.

The fact that something good has not worked does not mean it can never work. Have you looked at the quality of people at the helms of affairs in the period under review?

Nigeria has always had beautiful policies on paper but they usually fail at the implementation level. This may not be an exception, but we know the office and person to call out if it fails this time. Lets hold Hadiza responsible if this one is following the path of the old ones.

He said 'na statistics we go chop' yet wanna gaslight Nigerians with already failed KPI

No political will power to change at all...

Use your head! The taste of the cooking is in the eating. Tinubu and APC already failed, no KPI will bring fuel to N87 and $ to N197 GEJ left it

Dodada:
Lets hope Tinubu is different from the rest.