As part of the efforts towards achieving targets in the Power sector, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, Tuesday 16 July 2024 committed heads of agencies and directors under his ministry to signing the performance contract.
The signing was carried out at the end of extensive meeting with all the heads of the agencies and directors in the ministry.
Adedibu said the essence of the contract is to ensure that all the stakeholders work in synergy with the mindset of meeting a set target.
The contracts specified key performance indicators or metrics to measure performance .
The minister said the move is aimed at ensuring that all agencies in the power sector deliver on their targets and contribute to the overall achievement of the ministry’s goals.
The Minister expressed confidence that the signing of the performance contracts will compel each agency to deliver on their targets.
He said: “I’m telling you that we are going to deliver some key mandates of the ministry. So those mandates are going to cast pivot to the ministry and all the leaders on that. So we know that there are specific responsibilities that are delivered, expected of each CEO of an agency.”
The performance contract, he further explained “can serve as a supervisory, monitoring, and oversight platform for ministry of power and all the agencies under it.
“The contract 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 we 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. If you remember that sometime in November 2023, as the Minister of Power and as the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Power, we both signed a performance contract with Mr. President that actually summarized on a high level what Mr. President expects of us as Minister and Permanent Secretary on the ministry we should pretend on, which also includes all the agencies that work with the ministry.
“We signed that high-level performance contract. Now, we have cascaded that performance agreement down into the various relevant ministerial departments and agencies that will contribute to the overall achievement of what we signed with the President.
“As you know that it’s a top-down approach while it’s also a bottom-up approach.
“Every department in the ministry and every agency that we have has one or two roles to play in the achievement of the overall targets.
“And we believe that a chain is as strong as its weakest link. So, we don’t want any of our ministerial departments or agencies to drop the ball. We must be focused.
And I’m happy at the enthusiasm, at the response of everybody involved here today, which gives me some level of assurance and confidence that our overall targets will be achieved. That is what we are signing today.
“In terms of sanctions, let me tell you that I will not sit here today and start ruling out sanctions that will be demoted out to non-performance, because I am confident that we are all going to deliver.
“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.
“So there’s no express or specific sanctions, they will just be that we do our best and put in our best to make sure we achieve our targets.”
