Some development experts have in Abuja urged the Federal Government to adopt Key Performance Indicators (KPI) as critical tool to grow the nation’s economy and move the country forward.
A cross section of the experts made the suggestion at the formal inauguration of Sahelian Center for Leadership and Development at the International Conference Centre in Abuja. The centre has Ibrahim Dauda, a development and management specialist, as its Director-General.
One of the experts, Nnamdi Ozobia, a specialist in marine engineering and pioneer Managing Director of NigerDock, said that KPI was important in all sectors of affairs such as the judiciary, legislature and education.
Ozobia said KPI at each level enabled one to quantify and evaluate a performance process on a daily basis. According to him, KPI should be put in place to check and evaluate everyone’s input into the production and other processes essential to grow the nation’s critical sector, to move the nation forward.
He, therefore, called all on government at all levels, stakeholders and Nigerians to initiate and enforce KPI paradigm for national development.
The Director-General of the Sahelian Centre, described performance measurement as “regular measurement of outcomes and results which generates reliable data on the effectiveness and efficiency of programmes.
Dauda offered an insight in an inaugural lecture for the centre.
The lecture was titled “Poor Performance of Nigeria’s Government Projects and Service Delivery: Imperatives of Ethics, Compliance and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in Our Values System as a way forward“.
According to Dauda, “these include input resources such as human resources, employee time, funding used to conduct activities and provide services.
“Also, it is a quantified indicator used to assess how well an organisation or business is achieving its desired objectives,’’ he said.
He said that organisations as means of achieving results and quality service delivery should adopt performance measuring systems.
According to him, KPI is mostly preferred by many government and organisations as method to measure the performance of individuals, departments for assessment in terms of above expectations or below expectations.
He added that strict application and management of KPI would bring about high system and process performance with integrity in service delivery.
Dauda, therefore, urged all sectors to ensure KPI in carrying out their activities for better service delivery.
Dauda explained that KPI needed to be measured to know whether services delivered were of good quality.
Sen. Abubakar Ahmed, representing Adamawa South Senatorial District, said that the Sahelian initiative on KPI was a welcome development geared at measuring performance at all levels.
According to him, every Nigerian, whether a legislator or labourer, should endeavour to obey the law and ensure getting everything right.
Ahmed said it was necessary to measure performance, to keep everyone in check and move the nation forward. (NAN)
