The newly redeployed permanent secretary to the Federal Ministry of Education has assumed duty, pledging teamwork and proper coordination of the ministry.
The Permanent Secretary, Abel Oluwamuyiwa, while receiving the handing note from his predecessor, Nasiru Sani-Gwarzo, pledged to deliver on the mandate given by President Bola Tinubu.
“I am here to do what Permanent secretary are appointed to do in any ministry. The permanent secretary coordinates human, material, and financial resources to accomplish the development agenda of the government in power.
“So, I’m here to team up with you to get the job done. We have our mission. Our mandate was spelled out.
“And with me coordinating individual activities, I believe that you in your own different departments will rise to the occasion, join hands with me to make sure that what we do translates or manifests in trackable, measurable, and visible and impactful results”.
Oluwamuyiwa urged members of staff in the ministry starting from the directors to embrace the SMRT analysis- Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound as basis for work in the various departments.
Accordingto him, whatever efforts you put in will definitely bring out the results that will even satisfy you.
“The ministry is very vital and central in the strategic to the development agenda of the federal government led by our president.
” Human capital development is central and is very important for the kind of advancements we look forward to.It’s the bedrock of the kind of growth and development we aspire to accomplish in a sustainable manner.
” So, if the human capital is bereft of ideas, of modern knowledge, of the right quality in terms of innovation, then whatever we are aspiring to achieve in other sectors will surely come to naught,” he said.
Earlier, the outgone permanent secretary, Sani-Gwarzo, commended Tinubu for finding him to work at the highest capacity of a civil servant.
Sani-Gwarzo appealed to Enitan to work cordially with staff in the ministry to get results.
He explained that one thing he loved to do in his early life was to become a teacher adding that he was greatful to God, though not a teacher but a permanent secretary in the ministry of education.
“To my colleagues whom I’ve worked with in various ministries, each time I look around, I see people that I’ve worked with in health, Ministry of Industry, ministry of petroleum, humanitarian, in police affairs, and here now in education.
“God has blessed me, I will retire as a teacher. It has always been my dream.
“If there’s one ambition that I still look forward to, is to be a real classroom teacher. And by the grace of God, before I go, I will be a teacher,” he said.
Sani-Gwarzo ends his career as permanent secretary from the ministry of education after attaining the age of 60.
