President Buhari said this while welcoming the soon to be minister – who had all been screened by the National Assembly.

He also admonished them to sustain the momentum of the corruption fight of his administration.

Read Full Speech below

ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE PRESIDENTIAL RETREAT FOR MINISTERS-DESIGNATE, PRESIDENTIAL AIDES AND OTHER TOP GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONARIES, HELD AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA MONDAY, 19 AUGUST 2019 PROTOCOLS:

I welcome you all to this meeting whose purpose is firstly, to familiarize ourselves with our colleagues with whom we shall be working closely for the next four years GOD willing; secondly, to reflect and assess the country’s position in 2015 and today; and thirdly, to chart a course for the country for the foreseeable future.

2. I congratulate all the new comers who your country has chosen above others to join the first term Ministers whose performance has been outstanding. All of you are appointed to assist and advise the President in running the affairs of our country. At the end of the Retreat, it is hoped that all of you will be in tune with the roles and responsibilities of positions you will occupy in Government. Many national issues require unified decisions.

3. It is a great privilege for you to be called upon to serve in these Great Offices of State and you must grasp the chance with two hands and put in your best efforts as Nigeria today needs top managers to handle our numerous challenges. There will be long hours and you must be prepared to live laborious days if we are to serve our people optimally.

4. Ladies and gentlemen, we are all aware of the looming demographic potential of our country. By average estimates, our population is close to 200 million today. By 2050, UN estimates put Nigeria third globally behind only India and China with our projected population at 411 million.

5. This is a frightening prospect but only if we sit idly by and expect handouts from so-called development partners. The solution to our problems lies within us.

6. Honourable Ministers-Designate, in our first term we identified three salient areas for close attention and action, namely to secure the country, to improve the economy and to fight corruption.

7. None but the most partisan will dispute that we have made headway in all three areas:

First – we have rolled back the frontiers of terrorism; we are actively addressing other challenges such as kidnappings, farmer-herder violence, improving the safety of our roads, railways, air traffic and fire control capacities.

Second – we are steadily turning the economy round through investment in agriculture and manufacturing, shoring up our foreign reserves, curbing inflation and improving the country’s infrastructure.

Third – on corruption, we have recovered hundreds of billions of stolen assets and are actively pursuing control measures to tackle leakages in public resources. We will not let up in fighting corruption.

8. As Ministers, I am counting on you together with Advisers and Nigerians willing and able to contribute to build upon our road map of policies, programmes and projects that will lift the bulk of our people out of poverty and set them on the road to prosperity.

9. Our Administration’s eight years will have laid the grounds for lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years. This outcome will fundamentally shift Nigeria’s trajectory and place us among the World’s Great Nations.

11. Honourable Ministers-Designate, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of policies, programmes and projects in your various Ministries, Departments and Agencies in line with Government priorities. You must also ensure that Agencies under your Ministries are effective, efficient and accountable in the discharge of their responsibilities.

12. Honourable Ministers-Designate, we must work as a team. Although you have been chosen to represent your states as a constitutional imperative, it is vital for all of you to work as Nigerians.

13. Furthermore, working as a team demands that we know what the next person is doing. You must open communications with your colleagues. Lack of communication leads to lack of cooperation and sub-optimal performance.

14. Finally, although this is called a Retreat, I would like to think this is a preparation for an advance to the Next Level. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I wish you fruitful deliberations.

President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.



Source https://thickmatch.com/full-transcript-buhari-told-incoming-minsters-monday/

Waste of resources, u dnt need a glamorous occation, after all how do u expect them to perform when they are not aprt of the budget process, u cant defend someones project that u didnt write

Another set of our yam eaters....

New Looters Association,
See as they carry their school bag like say them serious for work but we know all of you, soon we go begin hear Jonathan govt and PDP are responsible for shortage of resources and under performance in MDAs

Now that his ministers are on the way.... We are expecting a kickoff. No more blaming the PDP 16yrs or Saraki or anyone....


Ita Ennang is gone
Eyo Ita is gone
Onnoghen is gone....

We don't want to hear excuses oh.....

This is for his "ministers"

What about what he told his "ministers"?

Keep deceiving yourself, as if he is the one that wrote all thses. Buhari that cannot even read and comprehend th

As e dey enter right ear e dey follow left ear commot ... they can't wait to start looting

yanabasee:
Now that his ministers are on the way.... We are expecting a kickoff. No more blaming the PDP 16yrs or Saraki or anyone....


Ita Ennang is gone
Eyo Ita is gone
Onnoghen is gone....

We don't want to hear excuses oh.....

Do you notice these people are from Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom?

I've always agitated that key appointments should go beyond Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo
Now majority of the prominent people from those states are equally being disgraced out or tried, even the NBA presido has had it hot since

FAILURE!

Wow

bellachibaby:
President Buhari said this while welcoming the soon to be minister – who had all been screened by the National Assembly.

He also admonished them to sustain the momentum of the corruption fight of his administration.

Read Full Speech below

ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE PRESIDENTIAL RETREAT FOR MINISTERS-DESIGNATE, PRESIDENTIAL AIDES AND OTHER TOP GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONARIES, HELD AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA MONDAY, 19 AUGUST 2019 PROTOCOLS:

I welcome you all to this meeting whose purpose is firstly, to familiarize ourselves with our colleagues with whom we shall be working closely for the next four years GOD willing; secondly, to reflect and assess the country’s position in 2015 and today; and thirdly, to chart a course for the country for the foreseeable future.

2. I congratulate all the new comers who your country has chosen above others to join the first term Ministers whose performance has been outstanding. All of you are appointed to assist and advise the President in running the affairs of our country. At the end of the Retreat, it is hoped that all of you will be in tune with the roles and responsibilities of positions you will occupy in Government. Many national issues require unified decisions.

3. It is a great privilege for you to be called upon to serve in these Great Offices of State and you must grasp the chance with two hands and put in your best efforts as Nigeria today needs top managers to handle our numerous challenges. There will be long hours and you must be prepared to live laborious days if we are to serve our people optimally.

4. Ladies and gentlemen, we are all aware of the looming demographic potential of our country. By average estimates, our population is close to 200 million today. By 2050, UN estimates put Nigeria third globally behind only India and China with our projected population at 411 million.

5. This is a frightening prospect but only if we sit idly by and expect handouts from so-called development partners. The solution to our problems lies within us.

6. Honourable Ministers-Designate, in our first term we identified three salient areas for close attention and action, namely to secure the country, to improve the economy and to fight corruption.

7. None but the most partisan will dispute that we have made headway in all three areas:

First – we have rolled back the frontiers of terrorism; we are actively addressing other challenges such as kidnappings, farmer-herder violence, improving the safety of our roads, railways, air traffic and fire control capacities.

Second – we are steadily turning the economy round through investment in agriculture and manufacturing, shoring up our foreign reserves, curbing inflation and improving the country’s infrastructure.

Third – on corruption, we have recovered hundreds of billions of stolen assets and are actively pursuing control measures to tackle leakages in public resources. We will not let up in fighting corruption.

8. As Ministers, I am counting on you together with Advisers and Nigerians willing and able to contribute to build upon our road map of policies, programmes and projects that will lift the bulk of our people out of poverty and set them on the road to prosperity.

9. Our Administration’s eight years will have laid the grounds for lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years. This outcome will fundamentally shift Nigeria’s trajectory and place us among the World’s Great Nations.

11. Honourable Ministers-Designate, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of policies, programmes and projects in your various Ministries, Departments and Agencies in line with Government priorities. You must also ensure that Agencies under your Ministries are effective, efficient and accountable in the discharge of their responsibilities.

12. Honourable Ministers-Designate, we must work as a team. Although you have been chosen to represent your states as a constitutional imperative, it is vital for all of you to work as Nigerians.

13. Furthermore, working as a team demands that we know what the next person is doing. You must open communications with your colleagues. Lack of communication leads to lack of cooperation and sub-optimal performance.

14. Finally, although this is called a Retreat, I would like to think this is a preparation for an advance to the Next Level. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I wish you fruitful deliberations.

President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.



Source https://thickmatch.com/full-transcript-buhari-told-incoming-minsters-monday/

I greet una

Their beating in numburg Germany will be carried by CNN this time. We are patiently waiting the buhari and his noise makers soon. Jubril al sudani will be forced to remove his cap before us here.

The era of blame game is over, now is operation show working.

But when I come to think of some of them in the cabinet with serious allegation of corruption cases and are not yet cleared free from it.

I am made to overstated the next level of looters.

Said baba

Buhari first time president

Buhari is a waste to this our dear country.

Rubbish, much talk , less action.

Ok
Hope they adhere to what Mr President says or it would be another dark day for the country to experience another 4years of doing nothing by the ministers

Verified WeChat and Alipay wallet available

This could be the reason why there's always hold up in APAPA.
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Baba Go slow,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

vertueptime:
Waste of resources, u dnt need a glamorous occation, after all how do u expect them to perform when they are not aprt of the budget process, u cant defend someones project that u didnt write

so if you 're employed as a manager to a company mid year you will ask them to re-do budget becos of you?

As if they will yield the the deserved Change

JamiuKabir:
FAILURE!

Only for you and your household and not for Nigeria.