Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex Okoh, has restated the management’s commitment to ensuring that the agency continues to uphold its core values of an efficient and credible organisation in the discharge of its mandate as the driver of the reform and privatisation programme of the Federal Government.
Speaking at a one-day retreat organised by the Bureau in conjunction with Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG) in Abuja with the theme ‘Accelerating Impact’, Okoh maintained that the reform activities of the Bureau cut across all key sectors of the Nigerian economy.
He explained the retreat was one of the ways for the Bureau to reposition itself to effectively play the pivotal role as the key driver of government’s economic reforms programme.
In his presentation titled‘ Towards a New BPE’ the Director General said the aim of the retreat include; to analyse key gaps and improvement opportunities in BPE’s internal operating model & structure, its institutional and regulatory environment, to revalidate and reach a consensus on the strategic direction for BPE to discuss and agree on its overall strategic priorities; and key imperatives for BPE to achieve the desired future state; amongst others.
Okoh stressed the need for the Bureau’s staff to re-invent themselves and gear up for the next phase of the privatisation and reform programme of the Federal Government.
The KPMG team lead at the forum, Mr. Segun Sowande, noted that the objective of the retreat was to identify key opportunities in the Public Enterprises Reforms and identify strategic priorities as well as key imperatives to achieve the desired future for the Bureau.
He further pointed out that there were new and viable opportunities for the Bureau to explore to further make its operations impactful on the nation’s economy.
