GABRIEL ADUDA TAKES OVER AS PERMANENT SECRETARY OF MFA, SAYS EACH MINISTRY IS UNIQUE
Oru Leonard
Gabriel Aduda assumes duty as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarter at the Abuja on Thursday, December 31, 2021.
Mr Aduda was received by a host of senior officials of the Ministry on Thursday, December 31.
In a chat with Journaliists, Aduda stated, “every ministry is unique in its own sence and we will deal with issues the way they come. Each ministry has its own peculiarities changelanges and opportunities, As a Permanent Secretary you are the head of administration, the Accounting Officer, those are basic issues and what you now need to do is how do we apply that to the peculiarities of the new terrain and we are trusting God to help us do it effectively.
He added that the programmes of the ministry are also the programmes he should be working on.
On his expectation, he said, ’Though the Ministry has been doing very well but I expect that very shortly we will take it back to number one in the world,’’ he said.
He also said he would support the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama to run the agenda of the nation,
‘’Our major occupation will be to give tips and to bring to actualization any given policy.
‘’So the minister’s agenda will be the agenda of the ministry,’’ he explained
He said his relationship with the press will be cordial.
Gabriel Aduda, is the immediate past Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development.
He was the Permanent Secretary Political and Economic Affairs Office and Chairman National Authority on Chemical & Biological Weapons Convention (NAC&BWC), Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
He was also the Director Civil Service Transformation Department, in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, where he also served as the Chairman; Public Private Partnership Consultative Forum Service Wide 2016-2017.
