Minister of Power, Engineer Sale Mamman, has felicitated with the management of Nigerian Electricity Liability Management Company (NELMCO) over the gold award from the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR).
The minister today received the management of NELMCO, led by its Managing Director, Mr Adebayo Fagbemi, who presented the award plaque to the minister.
The minister, on his Twitter handle, noted: “The managing director of the NELMCO and his executive management team were at my office today to present an award given to their agency by the @bpsr_ng for their successful implementation of the FG’s Self Assessment Tool. Kudos to them.”
Recalled that the Director-General of BPSR, Mr Dasuki Arabi, last Thursday, presented the gold plaque to NELMCO, for its performance in public service delivery after undergoing a successful organisational self-assessment process.
Arabi, while presenting the award, said NELMCO had fulfilled the necessary requirement in line with the self-assessment tool (SAT) adopted by the bureau, scoring it 86 per cent for its transparent operations and liabilities management.
“Following the validation of assessment of NELMCO by the bureau, its performance was rated as consistently meeting expectations in all essential areas of responsibilities,” he said.
Arabi said the self assessment was an opportunity for agencies to recognise their weaknesses and strength as it will help guide them in service delivery.
“As I said, the self-assessment tool is giving them the opportunity to see their weaknesses and see their strength. We have jointly assessed the agency. We have noticed lots of issues and problems that they need to address.
“We have guided them. We are going to provide a team of resource persons including our in house resource persons that will help them implement recommendations, and after six months we will come back to see how far they have gone.
“But, as I said, NELMCO is one of the points of success in public service delivery in Nigeria. We are happy with what we are seeing, and we are celebrating them,,” he said.
He disclosed that the bureau had a target of assessing 100 agencies, but noted that its activities have been limited to just 15 agencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that the assessment is a move to push for a revolution in public service delivery.
“The circular says every government agency. If not for the pandemic, we would have covered by our plan about 100 agencies by the end of June. But as government offices are opening, we are going to restart the programme. So, before the end of the year, we hope to cover about 50 agencies.
“We want to see a revolution in public service delivery and improvement in quality of public service delivery. This is in consonance with the open government partnership that Nigeria is committed to, open service delivery just as the charter says,” he added.
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