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In line with its new mandate, the new Ministry of Trade and Investment is set to introduce Performance Measurement Scheme (PMS) to measure the productivity of its workers.
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Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga,disclosed this while declaring open a 3-day off side retreat organised by the ministry for directors and chief executive officers (CEOs) of parastatals/agencies at Transcorp Hotel, Abuja.
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Aganga regretted that the ministry had not played its major role in the past and stressed the need to revitalise it to ensure that the management understood its role and its contributions towards the growth of the nation’s economy.
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?“This ministry has to play its major role, if this ministry fails, it will not work. ?The way you look at yourself and your contributions have to change from now. ?By the time we finish this retreat we will understand our role in the transformation agenda of this administration. ?It cannot be business as usual. ?It has to be work, it has to be productivity.
?You will be measured in terms of your productivity with our Performance Measurement Scheme, once we agree on what we need to do,”he said.
Aganga argued that the transformation agenda was to create economic growth in the country and ensure creative jobs,stating that the ministry would focus on the implementation of mandatory skills transfer to Nigerians by foreign construction companies as well as develop industrial clusters for the real sector.
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The minister who emphasised ?the role of the ministry in promoting private sector investment to allow for substantial improvement in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), productivity and commercial ability as well as attract investment into the country,made a solemn pledge ?that it must ensure global competitiveness of manufacturing goods, increment of manufacturing local content, and linkage with other sectors of the economy and facilitation of manufacturing growth as major foreign exchange earners.
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In his contribution, Minister of State, Dr. Samuel Ortom, said that the retreat would afford the management the opportunity to have a roadmap that would drive the ministry for the next four years and urged them to cooperate for effective discharge of the ministry’s mandate.
? Earlier, the permanent secretary, Dr. Abubakar Muhammad, pleaded with the management staff to cooperate to give the retreat a resounding success and reminded them that participants were expected to come up with a strategic plan to move the ministry forward.