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The newly
deployed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Mines and
Steel Development, Alhaji Adamu Kuta has stressed the need
for all workers in the Ministry to always respect and
observe Public Service Rules in conducting their affairs by
ensuring that they embrace hardwork, honest, integrity,
transparency and further warned against personal interests
and any other acts against the laid down procedures of the
service.
Alhaji Kuta stated this
shortly after taking over the affairs of the Ministry from
his predecessor, Mrs. Elizabeth Emuren who took over from
him in the Ministry of Women Affairs as Permanent Secretary.
Alhaji Kuta said with good
dispositions to work, the full potentials of the nation’s
solid mineral resources would be exploited for the economic
transformation of the country.
The Permanent Secretary
appreciated the crop of technical professionals in the
minerals and metal sector, promising that, he would be ready
to go by their professional advices in order to move the
sector forward.
Alhaji Kuta who said he was
coming into the ministry with the spirit of open-mindedness,
promised to continue with the good job the ministry is doing
so that the country’s dream of developing the minerals and
metal sector is realized.
Speaking earlier, the
outgoing Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Emuren
intimated his successor that the Ministry being a regulatory
agency of the government on minerals and metal development,
has seven departments, seven units and nine agencies with
the responsibilities of granting minerals titles,
supervision and inspection of full scale development of the
nation’s mineral resources, geochemical mapping/survey,
ensurance of environmental compliance among others.
She further said the
ministry is a professional ministry with staff strength of
607 manning various departments and units both at the
headquarter and out stations.
Mrs. Emuren also disclosed
that the ministry collaborated with the World Bank through
the Sustainable Management of Mineral Resources Project.
The outgoing Permanent
Secretary decried lack of funds, vehicles among others as
factors militating against the smooth running of the
ministry and its agencies, calling, for an increased funding
of the sector by the present administration.
Mrs. Emuren said ‘’While
change remains the constant phenomenon in life, it always
comes for good of service ,as officers move from one duty
post to the other to get acquainted with how government
operates and works in meeting the yearnings and aspirations
of its people’’.
She noted that the Ministry
of Mines and Steel Development is the engine room of the
nation’s economy being the regulatory force for the abundant
vast mineral resources embedded in the country.
She therefore urged the new
Permanent Secretary to use his vast knowledge and skills in
the ministry so as to bear in transforming the nation’s
economy.
The outgoing Permanent
Secretary thanked all the staff of the ministry for their
support and cooperation and urged them to extend same
gesture to the new Permanent Secretary so that the sector
would move forward.
In his vote of thanks, the
Director Steel in the Ministry, Mr. Akin Diya thanked the
outgoing Permanent Secretary for the impressive ways and
manners she conducted the affairs of the ministry during her
tenure.
He promised on behalf of
the management and staff of the ministry to extend the same
hand of fellowship to the incoming Permanent Secretary for
the minerals and metal sector to achieve her desired goals. |
