TUNJI-OJO, MAGDALENE AJANI SIGN PERFORMANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY PACT WITH AGENCIES

The retreat, which began on Monday in Abuja with the theme, “United Front for a Secure Nation and Future,” emphasized the Ministry’s core mandate of ensuring security, safety, and effective service delivery.

Speaking at the event, Dr Tunji-Ojo said the exercise was not a matter of optics but of ensuring a meaningful impact on Nigeria’s security landscape.

“This initiative is about the effect on Nigerians and on Nigeria as a whole. Our Ministry signed a performance contract with Mr. President last year, and after executing that for a year, it is time to extend this level of accountability to each agency. With quarterly appraisals, every agency now has clear, measurable deliverables.

“We want to be able to appraise ourselves. We want to be able to set targets for ourselves because we understand that this is not an era to give Nigerians excuses.

“There is an agenda, the Renewed Hope Agenda. And this agenda must be implemented, and Nigerians must see that this agenda is actually working. So what we are doing today is to be able to cascade and know that leadership is a pyramid. No matter who you are at the top, you can only be as strong as the base,” the Minister said.

The Minister reiterated that the performance contract signed aligns his role directly with President Tinubu’s mandate, emphasizing that the President had made it clear that the performance of ministers will determine their relevance in the system.

He explained that his appointment was to ensure that the Renewed Hope Agenda finds a place of permanent residency within the Ministry of Interior, adding that every agency head and staff member has a mandate to fulfill.

According to the Minister, this is a performance-driven regime, one that moves beyond “business as usual” toward an extraordinary commitment to “business unusual”.