Discharge Your Duties in Line with Extant Laws, Interior Minister Urges CGs

Michael Olugbode in Abuja

The Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has charged the paramilitary service chiefs in the ministry to discharge their mandates in line with the extant laws, warning that he would hold them accountable for any transgression.

The minister made the declaration on Monday when he assumed office at the Old Federal Secretariat premises, immediately after he was sworn in at the Presidential Villa alongside other ministers.

He said: “I am here to work but in working we must have a good environment. The work of this ministry affects everyone whether you are rich or poor.

“I don’t lead from the back, I lead from the front. We will try, we will do our best to provide leadership, build on the foundation of your support.

“I do not inherit enemies and I do not inherit friends. I make my own enemies and I earn my own friends. I am here to make a change and I am here to deliver results and I need you to help me to do that.”

“Just as Mr President will hold me accountable for whatever happens in the Ministry of Interior, I will never hold your subordinates responsible for anything; I will hold you responsible for anything that goes wrong,” he told the Controller Generals of the paramilitary services who came to welcome him to the ministry.