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No fewer than 140 officials will track and assess the performance of federal ministries, departments, and agencies ahead of the first assessment exercise at the end of this month.

This is as the officials joined the third technical retreat for delivery desk officers of federal ministries on the implementation of presidential priorities and ministerial deliverables in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, which began on Wednesday.

A senior official working closely with the Central Delivery Coordination Unit headed by the Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, Mrs Hadiza Bala-Usman, revealed that the officers, who would conduct the assessment, were drawn from 35 federal government ministries, departments and agencies.

"It will involve a permanent secretary and directors of planning and other officials, four each from 35 ministries. They are considering the modalities of the assessment, the key performance indicators and the reporting mechanisms and all of those," the official who did not want to be mentioned told one of our correspondents.

At the retreat, Bala-Usman echoed President Bola Tinubu’s words to participants when she warned that her principal would sack ministers who failed to perform their duties.

She noted that Tinubu was poised to deliver on his promise of making life better and easier for Nigerians.

Calling for the total commitment of delivery officers and directors of planning in ministries, Bala-Usman said, "We must understand that the President is very serious about his promises and that ministers will be assessed, and ministers will be dropped if they don’t perform.

"You must understand that as ministerial delivery desk officers, you are the engine room that will provide that feedback, constantly track ministerial progress, and report challenges and bottlenecks to the central coordinating and delivery unit."

The presidential aide, who dove into the specifics, explained, "In the Ministry of Aviation, we will be assessing FAAN on customer experience at the airports; are the escalators, lifts, and conveyor belts functional?


What are the consequences of delayed time of departure for airlines? These are things that everybody can feel and see.

"When talking about agriculture, we want to see our index of fertiliser use per hectare grow because of the attendant investment that has been made in fertiliser interventions."

On October 17, 2023, Bala-Usman said her office would begin a quarterly assessment of the performance of the 48 ministers (now 47) appointed by the President by January 2024.

She said January would be the best period to begin the exercise as all the ministries would have received their budgets for the 2024 fiscal year.

"We’re looking to commence an assessment of the respective ministries in January 2024. We’re going to have a quarterly assessment of performance, which will culminate into an annual scorecard," the former boss of the Nigerian Ports Authority explained in an interview on TVC.

She said the annual scorecard would be reviewed during periodic retreats where performances would be assessed against key performance indicators.

Paraman:
That's cool. Non performing ministers should be sacked.

Agboriotejoye:
1. Minister for Petroleum should go for missing the PH refinery deadline and also for Dangote refinery yet to come on stream by end of January.

Paraman:
That's cool. Non performing ministers should be sacked.

Agboriotejoye:
9. Ministers for Creative Arts, Transport, Marine and Blue Economy, Steel. What are they doing anyway?

Feel free to add yours

Blue economy means balablu bhlu bhlu bulaba if you don't gerrit forgerrit

Bobloco:
It has been a disaster all through.

If any minister will be sacked for non-performance, Tinubu himself should be sacked as well for bestowing on this nation this great tinubulation that has befallen it.

Agboriotejoye:
1. Minister for Petroleum should go for missing the PH refinery deadline and also for Dangote refinery yet to come on stream by end of January.

2. Minister of FCT should go for overheating the polity and playing crude politics while Abuja was being ravaged by kidnappers

3. Minister of Sports should go for demoralising the eagles by claiming the president is not impressed by the fact that they qualified out of the group.

4. Minister of Finance should go for his mismanagement of our fiscal policies. The budget deficit has widened and the supplementary budget was badly implemented. Also, his claim of "No More Loan" has turned out to be a lie with another $1.9bn reportedly being sourced after $800m and $3.3bn in less than a year. At this rate, Buhari will look like shylock compared to prodigal Tinubu.

5. Minister of Power for experiencing grid collapses 3 times since this administration took office. The former Minister managed to stem that tide till this dude arrived.

6. Minister for Defence. I don't think much needs to be said here. Kaduna bomb blast and Plateau attacks need no introduction.

7. Minister for Mines for the Ibadan explosion. No illegal miners. Just weak regulations which led to loss of lives and propertiesin the heart of a major city.

8. Minister for Aviation for Abuja Airport escalator not working for 3 months while he's busy doing social media owambes

9. Ministers for Creative Arts, Transport, Marine and Blue Economy, Steel. What are they doing anyway?

Feel free to add yours

NzogbuNzogbu:
They are failures already

The result speak for itself

Tinubu the chief failure should quit propaganda, this no be achievement

FuckOsuPigs:
So, what do we do? Sack Tinubu? And put who?

Stop lamenting joor.