Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has charged the management and staff of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture to work harder to justify the confidence of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Minister, who made the remarks in Abuja on Wednesday at his
inaugural meeting with the Permanent Secretary and directors of the
ministry immediately after he was sworn in by the President, said his
re-appointment and subsequent posting to the ministry is a mark of
confidence reposed in him by the President.
“My charge to all of us is to please redouble our effort so that we
can justify the confidence Mr. President has reposed in us. That Mr.
President has reappointed and posted me back to this ministry is a
measure of the confidence he has in me. So I think we all need to work
hard.
“Let me express my joy at the prospect of working again with the
Directors that I worked with in the last administration. Whatever
success we had achieved was because of the cooperation and
collaboration of Directors who worked with us,” he said.
Mohammed said he would continue to work very closely with the
Permanent Secretary and the Directors in order to implement the core
mandate of the ministry.
“There must be synergy between the Minister and the Permanent
Secretary and I must say that I have enjoyed very cordial working
relationship with my Permanent Secretary, and I am very glad that that
relationship contributed in no small measure to the moderate success
we achieved. We need your cooperation because we can’t do it alone,”
he said.
The Minister also thanked the Media team that worked with him in the
past four years, saying the team did a lot to publicize the activities
of the ministry.
In her remarks, the Permanent Secretary, Deaconess Grace Isu-Gekpe,
expressed delight at the reappointment of Alhaji Mohammed and pledged
the readiness of the management and staff of the ministry to support
and cooperate with the Minister to enable him achieve his mandate.
“It’s actually been my desire to have you back sir. We are all very
glad to have you back to continue where you stopped. There is a lot of
work here and I believe that you will surely take this ministry to the
next level.
“I want to say welcome back to your family and all of us are ready to
work with you to take this ministry and the whole nation, in areas of
information and Culture, to the next level,” she said.
