Ocheni to take charge of budgeting at Labour Ministry

The newly appointed Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Professor Stephen Ocheni, has assume office with a clear mandate from the Minister, Senator Chris Ngige, to improve the 2018 budgetary allocation to the ministry.

According to Ngige, the Minister of State will take charge of the 2018 budgeting, because as a professional accountant, he would make it the best.

While receiving Ocheni, the minister charged him to utilise his credibility as a renowned professional accountant to improve on the 2018 budgetary system of the ministry.

Ngige said “I am particularly pleased by the fact that you are an account professional with various degrees in accounting and that will remove the load from me in budgeting. You will take charge of the 2018 budgeting which we are about to start so that our budgeting system will improve.

“I made it better when I came, you can push it to become best. I am optimistic that by God’s grace you will put in your best to uplift this ministry and the Nigeria nation at large.”

He added “it is our pleasure to welcome the new Minister of State into our fold. Ministry of Labour and Employment is one of the oldest ministries in Nigeria, dating back to 1927 as colonial department. It is a challenging ministry that has been manned by prominent Nigerians in the past, your deployment as a Minister of State for Labour and Employment gives credence to your credibility as a renowned academic and astute bureaucrat.”

Responding, Ocheni assured the minister of his commitment to bring his knowledge and experience to bear in the discharge of his responsibilities towards the attainment of the objective of the ministry and the change agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari.