The Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has signed a performance contract with the heads of paramilitary agencies under his supervision on Tuesday with a warning for them to sit up or be shown the way.
Tunji-Ojo insisted that the performance contract agreement, which aligns with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, must be implemented and executed for Nigerians to see that the agenda is actually working.
The contract agreement contained each agency’s key performance indicators that will drive their contributions to the Ministry’s overarching goals and ministerial deliverables in 2025.
This was signed by the heads of agencies with the Minister at the end of a two-day performance contracting retreat held in Abuja with the purpose of ensuring that the Ministry’s agencies meet critical national security objectives in line with the Presidential priority on security.
Tunji-Ojo, in his remarks, said the era of excuses was over and that all the agencies would be held accountable for their deliverables as encapsulated in the key performance indicators and set targets.
He reminded the heads of the paramilitary agencies that he too had signed a performance contract with the President and that his job would be online if they failed to deliver on their mandates.
According to him, there would be a quarterly review of all deliverables at the ministerial level while urging the agencies to do a monthly review so that there would be an evaluation of performance at the end of every three months.
He said, “We signed a performance contract, and my job is on the line with Mr. President. He said it very clearly, that your performance will determine your relevance in the system.
“If you do not perform, you get fired. Also, all heads of agencies were appointed for them to deliver on their mandates. Obviously, it’s going to be an issue of a performance-driven regime and not a regime based on business as usual. This is a government that is based on business unusual, a government that is built on renewed hope.
“So every head of agency, just like me, has no choice but to deliver, because Mr President must deliver, and we are the building block; we are the brick that will erect the structure of performance of Mr President,” he said.
The services/agencies under the purview of the Federal Ministry of Interior are the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Fire Service (FFS), Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), and the Civil Defence Correctional Fire and Immigration (CDCFI) Board.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Magdalene Ajani, said the integrity of Nigeria rests squarely on the Interior Ministry and urged the agencies to ensure that they deliver on their mandates.
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