Tinubu corrals Ministers for assessment, and retreats to review performance
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Abuja will begin from January the quarterly assessment of the Ministers President Bola Tinubu appointed into the Federal Executive Council (FEC) when the 48 men and women would have received the budget for the 2024 fiscal year.
Presidential Policy Coordination Adviser Hadiza Usman disclosed an annual scorecard will thereafter emerge and be reviewed during retreats where performances will be assessed against key performance indicators (KPIs).
“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 would culminate into an annual scorecard,” Usman explained on TVC.
She said before that, the FEC members will participate in a retreat early next month where the KPIs will be defined and the Ministers will sign a performance bond.
“We’re going to have a cabinet retreat in the first week of November where the final details will be hashed with the full cabinet in place with Mr. President.
“At the end of it, we’re going to culminate with the performance bond. They’ll be signed by each ministry, every Minister, and the Permanent Secretary will sign a performance board with Mr. President.”
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Project-based deliverables
The bond will detail the deliverables each ministry plans to achieve within the one-year 2024 budget cycle, and “that performance bond is what we’re going to use to track the performance of that Minister,” she explained, per The PUNCH.
Usman, former Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) Managing Director, disclosed the government will prioritise citizens’ engagement to ensure Nigerians are part of the assessment.
“We’re going to deploy an application, a software, where citizens are able to report back on project-based deliverables that the federal government has committed to doing within the period to 2024.”
Usman was apparently referring to the EYEMARK app introduced last December by former President Muhammadu Buhari for project performance tracking.
She did not state in specific terms what the deliverables for each ministry will be, but stressed the deliverables must align with 2024 budgetary provisions.
“We sat with the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. We have worked effectively to define exactly the deliverables for each ministry.
“And those deliverables are also deliverables that I mentioned cascade to the agencies of government. So, for example, you have the sectoral deliverables for a sector in health, and everything that is contained within the value chain or the ecosystem within that sector will be contained within the deliverables.
“Those deliverables are translated into key performance indicators for the respective ministries. And once you have your key performance indicators, you’re able to clearly understand what your deliverables are over the period of the four years of the administration.
“We had bilateral sessions with all the ministries.
“In Nigeria as of today, we had each ministry take ownership of their respective deliverables, which we were able to synthesise across our Presidential Advisory Council reports. We were able to take from the national development plan document, and also the renewed hope manifesto we came up with.
“Deliverables for each ministry will define the key performance indicators. In furtherance to that, we’ve also ensured that the provision for the upcoming 2024 budget is in coherence with what has been defined as your deliverables.
“So, each ministry has been mandated to ensure that their deliverables are aligned with their budgetary provision that they will be submitting which would be furthered by Mr. President, National Assembly.”
