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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Dr Betta Edu has warned the management and staff of the North East Development Commission (NEDC) to change their attitude to work, warning that laxity and disunity would not be condoned.
Edu handed down the warning recently when addressing the NEDC management in Maiduguri, Borno State capital
The Minister, in a statement by her Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Rasheed Olanrewaju Zubair, urged them to work in tandem with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu, to reduce poverty and humanitarian Crises in the region.
She frowned at the disunity among members of staff departments a situation that has led to difficulties in achieving short, medium, and long-term goals.
“It is a teamwork. We must all collaborate and stop the duplication and wastage.
“Enough of the joke. Working in silos and poor coordination will not give Nigeria results. We can’t continue with business as usual. Please let us make a U-turn leave politics of division and face the job. Nigerians are waiting.
“President Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima are working together on how to reduce poverty and humanitarian crises in Nigeria, and this Commission is very strategic to the people of North Eastern part of Nigeria to drive the agenda.
“You must, therefore, fasten your belt and be goal-oriented. The only thing I want to see and hear is the result, and teamwork is key to achieving this,” she said.
Edu added: “I believe the management team in this hall can bring about the much-needed change to enable us to see a different result.
“I challenge you to jettison the conventional ways of doing things, the era of politics is over, so, please, give us results, sit down on the roundtable to implement the master plan of the Commission aligning it with the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr President”
NEDC Executive Director, Administration, and Finance, Dr Garba Abubakar Illiya, assured the Minister that the message of collaboration and partnership was well received by them, saying they will henceforth work as a team to achieve success.
He promised that NEDC would work with the minister to enable speedy implementation of its 10-year development and stabilization master plan.
