Ex-DG urges staff to implement CMD’s Strategic Plan
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By Cecilia Ologunagba
Abuja, Feb. 20, 2018 (NAN) Dr Kabir Usman, the immediate past Director-General, Centre for Management Development (CMD), has advised the staff to work together as a team to implement the Strategic Plan of the centre.
Usman gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
He urged the staff to have unity of purpose to achieve the mandate of the centre.
Usman, whose eight-year tenure at the centre ended on Feb. 15, also urged the Federal Government to ensure the sustainability of the centre through adequate funding.
“The staff must work together as a team; they should put politics aside, put religion aside and tribalism aside as well.
“They should see themselves as one trying to work for the interest of the centre and the country at large,” he said.
Usman’s tenure had witnessed the accreditation of 1,000 management consultants and 200 firms, hence he expressed optimism that the achievements would be sustained through the commitment and hardworking staff he handed over.
“The Centre has a Strategic Plan of three to five years; it has an Implementation Plan and also has an Action Plan as well as a Work plan for 2018.
“We have performance reports for the previous years and so we also have performance contracts with each of the directors.
“When we aggregate all these, it will give the current management and staff a strategic direction for the centre.
“So, there has been continuity in terms of mentoring and scheduling, all the directors have responsibility and they will continue with that to move the centre to a greater height,” he said.
Usman stated that the Centre had been positioned to generate revenue in future with the kind of the facilities it had now.
According to him, the infrastructure will certainly help to boot revenue as private sector operators will also be using the facilities for trainings.
The former director-general recalled that his tenure witnessed increase in the training programmes at the centre.
Usman said the centre was training maximum of 3,000 to 4,000 participants before he assumed duty as the DG.
But he said during his tenure, the centre trained about 10,000 people because his leadership worked with the Head of Service.
“The revenue inflow has declined now because of the economic challenges in the country.
“Some of the trainings we ran of recent had only two to four participants because Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) don’t have releases in terms of overhead.
“Also there is reduction in terms of their overhead so that they don’t have capacity to send quite a number of participants for training programmes.
“This has affected the centre but if the MDAs were properly funded and they subscribed to training; the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the centre would have gone up,” he said.
Usman, however, commended the Federal Government for increasing the capital allocation of the centre.
“There may not be increase in terms of revenue, but there was increase in terms of capital to enable the centre address the issue of dilapidated infrastructure,” he said.
CMD, a parastatal under the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, was established to drive the vision, plans and training programmes of the Federal Government. (NAN)
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(Edited by Salif Atojoko/Idris Abdulrahman)
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