By Biola Lawal
Abuja (Flowerbudnews): Director-General, Directorate of Technical Aid Corps, Hon. Yusuf Buba Yakub, has stated that the Agency would draw operational inspiration from the Four,-D Agenda of President Tinubu’s Foreign Policy initiative in order to actualise its mandate.
Buba gave the assurance in a speech on Wednesday in Abuja on the occasion of the deployment of a new set of TAC Volunteers to Liberia, Nkem Anyata-Lafia, the
SA (Media and Publicity) to the DG disclosed in a statement, a copy of which was made available to Flowerbudnews.
The former lawmaker thanked Mr President for giving life to the vision and ideals of the TAC Scheme so that it could continue to play the big- brother role Nigeria has impacted over the past 35 years in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
Buba reiterated his determination to strengthen the Agency by Repositioning, Re-energising and Re-engineering it for better and broader relevance in the affairs of our nation.
He enjoined the participants being deployed to Liberia to their task as service to humanity and should be guided by Patriotism, Discipline, Commitment to Service and Obedience to primary authority.
Buba also urged them operate with commitment to the Agreement that they have entered with Nigeria.
‘:To ensure that the next two years in your place of primary assignment and the recipient country is a period that has been earmarked to offer you the best opportunity to exert impact on your professional calling and the enabling environment to be your best and actualise the goals of the TAC Scheme,” Buba told them.
”we cannot overemphasize that everything concerning you has been taken care of within the framework of our agreement with the Recipient country and your kind selves, ”he further told them.
Buba assured them that the Nigerian Mission in Monrovia ”will continue to remain accessible to all Volunteers for guidance, direction, co-operation and complaints on any matter to which you quickly desire our kind attention,”.
The DG also used the occasion to publicly expressed appreciation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his appointment to the national service as Director General of TAC.
”I wish to avail myself of this rare privilege to publicly extend my gratitude and utmost loyalty to our dear Leader and President, for finding us worthy of his trust and giving us the privilege to join his quest for a better and more prosperous nation where every Nigerian will feel proud of being a member,’: the TAC Boss declared.
He added; ”Let me re-iterate my commitment to the vision of the Renewed Hope Agenda and pledge to join hands with all stakeholders in this Administration to vigorously pursue all of the laudable intentions of that vision.
”In strict compliance with Mr President’s mandate to all officials of the present Administration, we came into DTAC less than a month ago and quickly set out for the pursuit of Mr President ‘s mandate a 3- Point Agenda that aligns with His Renewed Hope Agenda here in DTAC.,,” he stated further.
The volunteers will be in Liberia for two years (Flowerbudnews)
For Records; Full Speech Below:
REMARKS BY RT. HON. (DR.) YUSUF BUBA YAKUB, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, DIRECTORATE OF TECHNICAL AID CORPS (DTAC), DURING THE DEPLOYMENT OF TECHNICAL AID CORPS (TAC) VOLUNTEERS TO LIBERIA ON SEPTEMBER 20,2023 IN ABUJA.
Protocols.
1.Permit me to, particularly, acknowledge the presence of gentlemen of the Press, who, I intend to use the opportunity of today’s event to also meet since my assumption of office here as DG.
2.Permit me to start by informing you that since taking over the reins of leadership here on August 25, following the gracious appointment of His Excellency, President and Commander-in-Chief, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, at whose gracious instance today’s programme is holding, we have hit the ground running to actualise his vision for a new Nigeria using the DTAC platform.
3.I wish to, therefore, avail myself of this rare privilege to publicly extend my gratitude and utmost loyalty to our dear Leader and President, for finding us worthy of his trust and giving us the privilege to join his quest for a better and more prosperous nation where every Nigerian will feel proud of being a member.
4.Let me re-iterate my commitment to the vision of the Renewed Hope Agenda and pledge to join hands with all stakeholders in this Administration to vigorously pursue all of the laudable intentions of that vision.
4.In strict compliance with Mr President’s mandate to all officials of the present Administration, we came into DTAC less than a month ago and quickly set out for the pursuit of Mr President ‘s mandate a 3- Point Agenda that aligns with His Renewed Hope Agenda here in DTAC.
These three points encompass the following: Repositioning, Re-energising and Re-engineering DTAC for better and broader relevance in the affairs of our nation.
5.It is our hope and conviction that, if we follow strictly the vision that has been handed over to us by our dear President, we cannot but make the greatest impact to the utmost benefit of our nation.
6. Your Excellencies, gentlemen of the Press, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, through our 3-R we hope to reset the DTAC for greater performance in the years ahead. I would like to inform that we have begun this solemn mission in national service by setting several timelines, which we hope to deliver to the nation in no distant time.
Today’s occasion is one such move, which will be followed by others. We, therefore, request the buy-in of everyone here and the support of the Press to make a success of all that we intend to achieve here.
7. I have no shred of doubt in my mind that together we will make the requisite progress. During my long years at the National Assembly, I had the privilege of building a strong symbiotic relationship with members of the Press.
And as one would readily expect from every engagement for mutual progress, I intend to build upon that thriving relationship between us here in DTAC.
8.Let me, therefore, welcome you all to the occasion of the deployment of TAC Volunteers to Liberia, the Recipient country. We have, following rigorous and painstaking processes, come this far from months of planning and working through various details.
9.For us here, our business is to continue to facilitate the recruitment and orientation of Nigerian professionals in diverse fields of endeavour for deployment to recipient countries in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific where their professional ingenuity is highly needed.
This is what our nation has continued to do since 1987 when the Directorate was established and was perfected by an Act of Parliament No 27 in 1993.
10. I would like to, therefore, congratulate all the Volunteers here, who, of course, will appreciate today’s programme, especially, given the painstaking processes that have brought you thus far.
11. For the avoidance of doubt, and, maybe, for the information of members of the Press here, this group of Volunteers has evolved from a long range of processes that include, response to adverts, shortlisting of qualified applicants, interviews, selection as well as other processes.
12. My emphasis on the above bears directly from the important activities and processes that we have undertaken to ensure that the next two years for the Volunteers will be a period of serious commitment to the task ahead of them in furtherance of our bilateral ties and friendship with the recipient country, in this particular case, the Republic of Liberia.
13. As part of the commitment of the Volunteers, and as you are aware, there is a tripartite agreement and commitment between us as Federal Republic of Nigeria and you as Volunteers on one hand. and, again, between us as Government and the Recipient country, in another. We must not fail in any of these.
14.Knowing that you have received the requisite orientation on the demands of the TAC Scheme and all that are required from you per time, it is, therefore, expected that your involvement in this journey for service to humanity and country must be one that will be characterized and guided by the following:
i. Patriotism
ii. Discipline
iii. Commitment to Service
iv. Obedience to primary authority and, last but not the least,
v. Commitment to the Agreement you have entered with your nation, Nigeria.
15.To ensure that the next two years in your place of primary assignment and the recipient country is a period that has been earmarked to offer you the best opportunity to exert impact on your professional calling and the enabling environment to be your best and actualise the goals of the TAC Scheme, we cannot overemphasize that everything concerning you has been taken care of within the framework of our agreement with the Recipient country and your kind selves.
16.As you already know, our Mission in Monrovia will continue to remain accessible to all Volunteers for guidance, direction, co-operation and complaints on any matter to which you quickly desire our kind attention.
17. Again, let me return to the crux of our gathering here today, the deployment of Volunteers.
There is hardly any more things to add other than what you have received in the process of preparing for this day. Stick, therefore, with all you have been told and you will never put a foot wrong. And as my father would always say each time I prepared to return to school as a boarding student, “always remember whose son you are before you step out anywhere.”
18. As I conclude these remarks, let me thank the staff and Management of DTAC, who have all worked assiduously to make this day a reality. To the gentlemen of the Press, is there anything we can do without your kind cooperation? As always, we will strive to always keep our continuous synergy in nation-building and I invite you to go with me as partners and collaborators.
19.We again extend our humble invitations to all of you to join us in realising the Nigeria envisaged by Mr President ‘s Renewed Hope Agenda as exists for our Foreign Policy (Democracy, Development, Demographics and Diaspora) and in other spheres of our national lives.
20. I thank you for your patient listening and wish our Volunteers journey mercies to Liberia. (Flowerbudnews)
