Minister of Youths and Sports development, Sunday Dare and two other ministers in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet have been listed as best performers with the Nigeria minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Farouq, ranked also as a best-performing minister in the first year of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term.
It will be notably recalled that Dare celebrated his one year at the office last week as he reveals on the opportunity bestowed on him by Mr. President while looking back on his coveted achievements.
In an interim scorecard released by Transparency Watch, the minister’s counterparts in the ministries of transportation and youths, sports and development, Rotimi Amaechi and Sunday Dare came second and third respectively with the report signed by the organization’s president, Maxwell Gowon.
An assessment of the federal ministry of transport shows that Rotimi Amaechi had a score of seven out of 10. Amaechi, the report said was graded on the ministry’s efforts in sustaining the rail constructions across Nigeria.
For the minister of youth and sports development, Sunday Dare, the ministry’s implementation of youth-oriented programmes across the country, especially at the grassroots level was rated successful.
The report stated that the ministers were graded based on organizational strength, the performance of the agencies under the purview, the impact on the lives of the people as well as transparency and accountability cum assessment of organizational strength, of all the ministries reviewed as Farouq scored first with a score of nine out of 10 points followed by the minister who scored nine out of 10 on organizational strength.
The minister’s score is due to the ministry’s effective organization of the various interventions programs of President Buhari’-led administration, according to the report, as it highlighted that some of the interventions were carried out through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the national N-power initiative, National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, and the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme.
