Mr. Dasuki Ibrahim Arabi, Director General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), expressed gratitude to the Federal Government for approving the constitution of the Governing Board for the Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Company Limited (NELMCO).
After successfully deploying the self-assessment tool to NELMCO as part of our mandate to reach out to all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) in order to ensure their proper reform, in line with the commitment of the current administration, the approval followed our recommendation on the need for the board.
Remember that NELMCO was accredited by BPSR after meeting all requirements set forth by the self-assessment tool (SAT) used by the bureau and receiving an 86 percent rating for its transparent operations and liabilities management.
He said that “the self-assessment tool is giving them the opportunity to see their weaknesses and see their strengths. 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.”
“We want to see a revolution in public service delivery, and improvement in quality of public service delivery and in consonance with the open government partnership that Nigeria is committed to, open service delivery just as the charter says,” Arabi added.
The managing director of NELMCO, Mr. Adebayo Fagbemi, recently explained to journalists how they were able to secure the Federal Government’s approval to form the board by referencing their ability to save N91 billion and pay off debts accumulated by the now-defunct PHCN prior to its privatisation in 2013.
The new board will be led by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed and other members such as Minister of Power, Aliyu Abubakakar; Director-General, BPE, Alex Okoh; and Director-General, Debt Management Office, Patience Oniha, the Managing Director, NELMCO, Adebayo Fagbemi, all executive directors of NELMCO and two private sector members.