Delegations of three foreign governments have arrived the country, and presently understudying three agencies of the Nigerian public service.
The Director General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Mr. Dasuki Ibrahim Arabi, made this known when he led top management staff of the Bureau on a familiarization visit to the Minister of Power, Engr. Abubakar D. Aliyu, at Power House, in Abuja.
According to Arabi, the three agencies been studied by the foreign delegations are the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), the Security and Exchange Commission (NCC), and the Treasury Single Account (TSA) reform initiative.
He said several reform policies initiated by their BPSR have brought public financial management in Nigeria at par with other public financial management administrations in the world.
“BPSR, since its establishments, along with other sister agencies, have driven public financial management reforms in Nigeria.
We are the brain behind the introduction of the Bank Verification Number (BVN), Treasury Single Account (TSA), and quite a number of things around public financial management.
“We have succeeded in making the public service of Nigeria to be among those the international community, especially the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have acknowledged,” he added.
The BPSR helmsman noted that their agency and other members of the steering committee on reforms also initiated power reforms which have succeeded in unbundling the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), facilitated an improvement in power supply, and also created an ecosystem around power generation, distribution and marketing.
In his address, Engr. Aliyu, disclosed that their Ministry, in recent years, has been doing a lot to sanitize and transform the power sector.
The Power Minister, while pledging his support and cooperation to the BPSR management, maintained that the Bureau’s work will continue to guide their activities and programmes at the Ministry.
He further said that the work been carried out by BPSR is key to the entire governance structure of the nation, hence putting the reform agency in a strategic position.
Signed:
Aliyu Umar Aliyu.
