SWEARING IN OF FIVE NEW PERMANENT SECRETARIES AND CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE DELTA STATE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT COUNCIL ....
....GOV OKOWA CHARGES THEM TO SEE THEIR ELEVATION AS A CALL TO HIGHER RESPONSIBILITIES

Asaba-

In a bid to strengthen and reinvigorate the Delta State civil service, Governor  Ifeanyi Okowa on Monday  sworn in five new  Permanent Secretaries.

Correspondent Marian Nweke reports that the Chairman and members of the Delta State Public Procurement Council were also sworn into office at the ceremony held at the banquet hall, Government House Asaba.

Inaugurating the Permanent Secretaries, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa urged them to see their elevation as a call to higher responsibilities and challenges that would lead to maximum productivity in the state civil service.

He said as veterans in civil service and Chief Accounting Officers in thier respective ministries, they are to lead by example by upholding commitment, accountability, fairness and versatility in the discharge of their duties.


While urging the new PSs to be acquainted with the Stronger Delta policies and programmes of his administration, the Governor pledged to continue to create enabling environment for civil servants to thrive.

He equally reminded them of the need to make cutting waste and inefficiency, as well as enforcing discipline and due process in the rank and file as a priority so as to engender a new paradigm shift in the civil service.

To the Chairman and members of the Delta State Public Procurement Council, Governor Okowa disclosed that it was a core duty of the Council to ensure that all extant laws such as sign off limits and other standardised regulations are complied with by the Commission.

He noted that the Council, as an independent body, was a creation of Delta State Public Procurement Law 2020, stressing that its establishment, would among other things, help to achieve the state fiscal transparency, accountability and sustainability initiative of the World Bank.

Senator Okowa noted that the Council would have an oversight function on the state Public Procurement Commission, stating that it was the requirement of the World Bank that for all transactions of Government to be credible, such transactions should be overseen by an independent body such as the Council.

Responding on the behalf of the new Permanent Secretaries  and the members of the Delta State  Procurement  Council  Mr Friday Momah  and Sir Okey Ofili  respectively, assured the Governor that they would do their best in their assignments, just as they promised to make meaningful input in building a Stronger Delta.

The new Permanent Secretaries are Mr. Momah Friday, Mr. Aghedo Emmanuel, Dr. Bragiwa Moses, Mr. Agamah Bennett and Mr. Awuse Maxwell.

While that of the Delta State Public Procurement Council has a former Head of Service, Sir Okey Ofili as Chairman, Mr. Edwin Abraka and Mr. Okezi Odugala as members while the Director-General of the State Public Procurement Commission would serve as Secretary, while the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Commissioner for Finance, Commissioner for Economic Planning and Chief Economic Adviser are Ex-officio members of the Commission.