Business Day
6 August 2011
Government activities are expected to take an upward swing beginning from August 15, following the official resumption of duty by Ngozi Oknjo-Iweala, minister of finance.
Okonjo-Iweala, outgoing managing director of the World Bank, is expected to spearhead the major economic drive of the President Goodluck Jonathan government in the next four years, targeting improvement in key sectors of the economy.
Since the inauguration of the new cabinet by President Goodluck Jonathan about a month ago, activities in the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government have been slowed down due to the absence of the new finance minister, who is expected to chair the economic team of the government.
“You know Okonjo-Iweala is very key to this government and Mr. President has so much confidence in her capacity to assist him run the economy.
The dream of the president is for the country to record double-digit growth in the GDP. President Jonathan is confident that the new finance minister can help him achieve this,” a senior government source told Businessday in confidence”.
Already, Okonjo-Iweala has begun assembling and identifying key figures in government who are expected to assist President Jonathan drive the key reforms of the administration.
Sylvester Monye, the new special adviser on performance evaluation and project monitoring; Nwanze Okidegbe, chief economic adviser; Bright Okogwu, director, General Budget Office and Adesina Adewumi, minister of agriculture, have all been identified as those who will form the nucleus of President Jonathan’s economic engine.
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