FG sign 1 year performance contracts with agencies under ministry of interior

The federal government has signed one year performance contracts with all agencies under the ministry of interior.

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji Ojo, who oversaw the signing of the performance contracts after a three day retreat in Suleja, Niger State, stated that the ongoing reforms within all the agencies must be seen through to their logical conclusions with a 100% grade.

The agencies involved are the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Federal Fire Service (FFS), and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).

Tunji Ojo said, “When we did the last retreat, we were 62 per cent. A year later, the Presidential Performance Assessment Initiative moved us from 62 per cent to 85 per cent.

“So now, our target is 100 per cent.”

He emphasised the need for capacity building for personnel of the paramilitary services, saying that capacity building would bring the best out of them and align them with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.

He urged the director general of NIMC, Abisoye Coker Odusote, to continue the reforms in NIMC to ensure that Nigeria has a solid foundational identity that could be authenticated, verified and free of fraud and abuses.

Tunji-Ojo said the reforms in the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) should be carried out to achieve transformation and reformation of inmates, saying that correctional centres should no longer be a place for condemnation.

Speaking about the FFS, he said: “I told you there’s a lot of work to be done in terms of orientation, in terms of scope of service.

“By this time next year, I want to see a Fire Service that will be the custodian of emergency medical service. I want to see a Fire Service that will be liberalised.

“I want to see a Fire Service that will allow for private sector participation. I want to see a Fire Service that will be able to regulate and be able to enumerate the sector.

“And I want to see a Fire Service that will be judged by the number of assets saved.”