Ministerial Nominee Gets Confused Over National Pledge

A ministerial nominee caused a stir before the senate for failing to recite the National pledge appropriately.

Zainab Ahmed, one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees, messed up the Pledge when she was asked to recite it by one of the senators.

On the second line of the Pledge, Ahmed said: “To be loyal, honest and faithful”, instead of “To be faithful, loyal
and honest”.

 While answering questions, Ahmed, who noted that the oil and gas sector has a lot of leakages, observed that the management of domestic crude is poor.

“The GMD of NNPC has started tackling the problems. We don’t have the capacity to determine the accuracy of invoices raised for us by the joint venture partners. We should revisit joint operating arrangement and re­view them. NEITI has blown whistle in respect of unremitted funds by the NNPC,” she said.

She also spoke on what she would do for the sustenance of the Millen­nium Development Goals (MDGs).

“What we need to do is to stay and implement what we are committed in terms of realising the MDGs. We have made progress with some of the goals, but in some areas, especially in educa­tion and health, we are very backward. We need to go back to the drawing table, we need to assess what we have done, we need to identify the gaps and quickly make plans on how to bring up our attainment of the MDGs,” she said.

Zainab Ahmed is one of the female ministerial nominees of  President Muhammadu Buhari's regime.