Housing Ministry Inaugurates Task Team on Presidential Deliverables

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Marcus Ogunbiyi, has inaugurated a delivery task team on the Presidential Priorities and Ministry’s Deliverables.

The group is a 25-man team drawn from the ministry’s headquarters, alongside some agencies of the ministry, according to the Director of Information, Badamasi Haiba.

In his address, Ogunbiyi expressed optimism that the inauguration of the task teams would mark a turnaround for the ministry’s activities, saying that all departments would be responsive and have the knowledge that all activities would be monitored.

He emphasised the importance of the task team, urging the team to know their roles and responsibilities as well as take their duties very seriously in order to execute their tasks excellently.

 Ogunbiyi informed the team that there would be quarterly reporting and assessment on the ministerial and presidential deliverables, and as such, an awareness seminar would be organised for the task team where more details of their tasks would be unveiled.

“We must be able to monitor and guide all the activities to know where we are at a given time,”he stated.

He also stressed the importance of generating accurate data by the task team, adding that there was need for efficient and effective method of collecting and managing data.

In his remarks, the Special Adviser to the Minister on Administration, Adamu Ladan, said the present administration has taken the initiative which is a very fundamental one to the delivery of its mandate.

He advised the task team to consider themselves very critical and key to the implementation of the ministry’s mandate and so should take every task very importantly.

“We shouldn’t be found wanting in any aspect of our deliverable, so I urge us to pay attention to the tasks assigned to us and carry it out responsibly”, he stated.