No fewer than 140 officials have been arranged to 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, the 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.
The official who did not want to be mentioned told journalists that theyare considering the modalities of the assessment, the key performance indicators and the reporting mechanisms.
At the retreat, Bala-Usman echoed President Bola Tinubu’s words to participants when she warned that the President 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 explained that the President is very serious about his promises and that ministers will be assessed and dropped if they don’t perform.
On October 17, 2023, Bala-Usman said her office would begin a quarterly assessment of the performance of the ministers 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