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By Sunday Ani
The Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) has rated the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF) as the best performing Federal Government’s Agency in 2022.
This was made known by the Director-General of the Bureau, Mr. Arabi Ibrahim Dasuki, during the presentation of the report and award of its 2022 Self Assessment Tool (SAT) to the management of the NLTF, on Tuesday in Abuja.
He noted that during the 2022 self and validation assessment exercise of the various federal government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the NLTF was found to be the best agency in essential areas of responsibility and quality of work.
“Upon the Federal Government’s directives, the Bureau of Public Service Reforms in 2022 deployed its self assessment tool (SAT) on National Lottery Trust Fund and various government agencies. The overall objective was to identify NLTF’s strengths and weaknesses, as the first step towards ensuring that the agency is fit for purpose and optimal performance. At the end of the 2022 self and validation assessments and in-depth analysis of the National Lottery Trust Fund operations, processes and systems, the NLTF’s performance is 75.24 per cent, and therefore emerged a Gold Level organisation that exceeds expectation,” Dasuki said.
He said the NLTF’s performance consistently exceeded expectations in all essential areas of its responsibility and quality of work adjudged to be above average as its main organisational goals were met.
Dasuki emphasised that what they discovered during the assessment exercise in NLTF was quite impressive and encouraging.
According to him, the findings showed that NLTF operates a current strategic plan with high-level output aligned to approved budgets, and it has financial management systems and procedures that comply with relevant government accounting policies and standards.
“Our finding reveals effective system, well established human resources management policy with objective criteria for recruitment, career development, promotion remuneration, rewards and assignment of managerial functions, as well as routine monitoring of policies,” the D-G added.
On transparency of the assessment exercise, Dasuki said it was imperative that the whole process was free from both internal and external influences.
He congratulated the management and staff of the NLTF for the gigantic achievement.
Responding, the Executive Secretary of the Fund, Dr Bello Maigari said he was delighted on the integrity and transparent assessment conducted by the Bureau.
Maigari said the outcome of the assessment exercise revealed a lot of competencies and strengths of the BPSR reforms.
“It has shown to Nigerians that an Agency of this structure and nature can fulfill and transform this country to greatness.
“In memory lane; this is, indeed, the second award we received in recent time. We happened to be the best Agency on the ICPC 2022 Score Card report on ethics, integrity and compliance among the Federal Government’s MDAs,” Maigari said.
He attributed the feat to hard work, dedication to duty, as well as loyalty and support of members of the staff to the management.
“I want to encourage you to still continue on that path,” he added.
Commenting further on national affairs, Maigari said the country still remained the best place to live, assuring that the present administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was working hard through its ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ to ensure that Nigerians receive the best of services.
“The current hardship that Nigerians are going through is temporary, and it will disappear in no distance time because some fundamental frameworks put in place by the government would yield success.
“Also, the issue of fuel subsidy and devaluation of the Naira are all issues that would fizzle out and soon begin to see a bouncing economy and job opportunities.
“Nigeria is a country of greatness because of its potentials in agriculture, mineral resources, and youth population,” he said.
He thanked the management of the bureau for finding the NLTF as the overall best performing agency in the country in 2022
