The four key offices:

“When I become President, there will be four offices in the presidency that will be critical to the success of my government. Number one will be the office of National Strategy, ONS. Number two will be the Office of Risk Management, ORM. Number three will be the Office of Performance Management, OPM, and number four will be the Office of Human Capital Development, OHC. These are the four offices that will be the underpinning of my presidency. There will be no politician within a 10-mile radius of these four offices. It will be headed by professionals, experts in strategy, and experts in risk management, experts in performance management, and experts in building human capital development. What will these four offices do? The office of National Strategy will set up the broad template, the overarching goal, the timelines and the milestones that have to be achieved by the different parts of government architecture. The Office of Risk Management will help to manage the risks that prevent leaders from failing. Those risks are many. They could be political, strategic or operational risks. Nobody manages or averts all risks, but if the person has that consciousness he will manage, avert or mitigate many risks and achieve at the very least, 70 percent of the purpose of being in government. The office of Performance Management will measure and assess all the various departments and their performances against the strategic benchmarks and milestones. And that assessment will occur every quarter. Every department that did not perform will not be tolerated. There will be accountability. Within the first six months I expect to have fired at least one minister for non-performance. By the time I fire one or two ministers, people will know that this is not business as usual, and they will sit up. It will promote accountability because I have the political will. I will be a performance-driven President. The office of Human Capital Development will help us to retrain the public service. It will not be done by sending them to Harvard for training. The Lagos Business School and other institutions are there for us to retrain our public servants. We will combine the local and the international ideas and retrain our public service here in Nigeria. We will do that in batches.”

Moghalu speaking in an interview with the Vanguard newspaper, published on September 15th, 2018.

On Property rights:

“I am going to move for a constitutional amendment for the abolition of the Land Use Act. I will do it so that Nigerians can actually own landed property anywhere. It will create more economic opportunities than a regimented bureaucratic state where people are bribing and waiting for the government to provide Certificate of Occupancy all the time. We need to set this economy free and just create an enabling environment.”

Moghalu speaking in an interview with the Vanguard newspaper, published on September 15th, 2018.

On recurrent expenditure:

“Recurrent expenditure as a percentage of the overall national budget will be reduced to not more than 50 percent of the budget by the end of the President’s second year in office; savings available as a result will be deployed to four budget line items -- health, education, science, technology and innovation, and infrastructure.”

Moghalu speaking in his book, “Build, Innovate and Grow: My vision for Nigeria”

Kingsley Moghalu

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