Mohammed Shosanya
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, warned that sanctions would be imposed on any agency or Director that fails to meet it’s expectations in the power sector.
He disclosed this on Wednesday when various agencies in the power sector signed performance contracts aimed to work in synergy to deliver targets and contribute to the overall achievement of the sector’s goals.
The Minister said he won’t wait until the end of the year or end of the quarter before he conduct the assessment,adding that there was need for everyone to get involved in the works on “how you are progressing to achieve your final targets for the quarter”.
He added:”Just like the performance delivery is top-down, reward will also be top-down on achievement. Then, sanctions too, will be top-down, depending on the sanctions that Mr. President is going to mete out to a non-performing minister and a non-performing council, we will determine the sanctions that will be met out to everybody involved here.
“Like I mentioned at the beginning of this meeting, I think you saw a lot of topics. We talked about information sharing, dissemination, and sector-wide coordination.
“You can serve as a supervisory, monitoring, and oversight platform for ministry of power and all the agencies on that.It’s also to serve more like a platform for sector coordination and decentralized project management.
“And the fourth number is the synergy that we intend to gain from coming together of all of us here and capacity optimization. We are going to use the skills that we have across all the agencies and ministries in each of our activities.
“And lastly is the issue of a training platform, a training ground, a refresher opportunity for all of us to know what is happening in the sector so that when we are out there, we can respectively represent the power sector.
“Then covering the entire board is that it is a performance, monitoring, and evaluation platform because we all have targets to achieve at the end of the year. And we will not wait until the end of the year or end of the quarter before we start assessing ourselves.
“We need to get involved in the works on how you are progressing to achieve your final targets for the quarter in your presentation, how much have you achieved, what you set out for the year.So what we are doing now at the end of the meeting is to ensure that we sign more like a performance bond or a performance contract that will compel each and every one of us to deliver on our targets. “