By Favour Nnabugwu

FEderal government has signed performance agreement with 15 parastatals in the education sector following President Goodluck Jonathan’s three months performance target for all the federal Ministries.

The performance agreement signed on behalf of the federal government by the Minister of Education, Professor Ruqquayat and the Minister of State for education Barr Nyesom Wike at in Abuja recently was aimed at spurring the parastatals to focus on job delivery.

The Ministers urged the heads of the parastatals to work in earnest in order to meet up with the limited three months’ time.

Rufa’i said that every four weeks, the ministers will be getting in touch with the parastatals heads to see how far they have gone adding that “we need to meet the target and I commend Mr President for putting this process across because through it we will know the area we are going to focus.

“The key performance contracts are the things we are to achieve in the next three months. The two of us cannot actually deliver without your cooperation, after all, the parastatals are the engine room, you are the one doing the job, we are just overseeing the affairs of the ministry to make sure things are done correctly.

”We cannot deliver without your cooperation, it will not make any meaning if we do not work together to achieve the desired goal”, she added.

Earlier the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike in his remarks said that Mr. President is going to hold them responsible if the targeted objective was not met in the next three months.

According to him, “If you do not perform, obviously you have failed, you need to work as a team because education is very large sector and by the time you put more efforts in achieving this, we will definitely see changes in the next three months”.

Wike pointed out that the process will no longer be business as usual adding that “since the President is focusing on the ministers, the ministers will equally focus on you.