A former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, has challenged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to make public the performance review report of the recently sacked ministers as well as their counterparts still in his cabinet.
Chidoka said this in a statement titled, ‘Chidoka Tasks Buhari To Publish Review On Sacked Ministers, Security Sector, Others’ which he signed in Abuja, on Tuesday.
He described the President’s decision to sack the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Nanono and his counterpart in the Ministry of Power, Sale Mamman, as an “uncharacteristic move.”
The ex-Minister said “President Buhari in a widely reported speech at the Federal Executive Meeting predicated his decision on a claimed ‘independent and critical self-review’ of sectorial performance and evaluation.
“According to Mr. President, ‘Two years and some months into the second term, the tradition of subjecting our projects and programs implementation to independent and critical self-review had taken firm roots through sector reporting during cabinet meetings and at retreats.
“These significant review steps had helped to identify and strengthen weak areas, close gaps, build cohesion and synergy in governance, manage the economy and improve the delivery of public goods to Nigerians.”
Chidoka stated that the speech gave the impression that the President evaluates and monitors the activities of his appointees through independent review and monitoring alignment with the nine priority areas of the government.
He said, “Nigerians would want Mr. President to publish the said independent performance review which according to him have been going on for two years and some months into his second term and final term in office, and which led to the dismissal of the two ministers
“Mr. President is called out to immediately share with Nigerians the name(s) of the independent evaluators, the performance measurement criteria, the total result of the evaluation as well as the rating of other sectors particularly security, education, health, road infrastructure, finance among other critical sectors.
“Nigerians would like to know the outcome of the assessment of the security agencies, identifying the weaknesses and communicating the plans for strengthening the identified weak areas.
“Two of the nine priority areas of this administration are “expand access to quality education, affordable healthcare and productivity of Nigerians” and “improve security for all”.
“Nigerians would want to know what score the independent reviewers assigned to those responsible for growing the economy, expanding access to quality education and improving security in our country.”
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