Committee Instituted To Reposition DTAC Submits Report

Edited By Florence Adewale

A Committee set up to reposition the Directorate of Technical Aid Corps to align the mandate and programmes of the Agency with the foreign policy components of President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda has rounded off its assignment.

This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja.

Speaking while receiving the Report of the Committee from the Chairman, Professor Yusuf Zoaka, the Director-General of the Agency, Dr. Yusuf Buba Yakub, appreciated members of the Committee for working round the clock to meet the deadline.

According to the statement, the Committee could not have delivered on the expectations of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, and Management of DTAC without the high sense of commitment and the collective zeal for results, which each of the members demonstrated throughout the assignment.

“Against what has become a sad practice in this country, where very beautiful and well-crafted Reports suffer the ugly fate of being abandoned on the shelves of various offices across the land, I want to assure you, that this piece of work to which you have given your all in the past five days, will see the light of day”.

“Conscious of what we intend to achieve with this in the promotion of our dear President’s Renewed Hope Agenda, I shall in the next few days and weeks personally ensure that the recommendations that this august Committee has put forward are quickly conveyed to all the various stakeholders of this Agency for their consideration and likely inputs”.

According to the statement, the Chairman of the Committee, Prof. Yusuf Zoaka, expressed the hope that the commitment of members of the team, drawn from various professions, including Law, Diplomacy, Finance, Administration, and Security, meets the expectations of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Management of the Agency.

In the statement, the Don thanked the Directorate for the opportunity to serve the nation through the Agency in line with the position of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Tuggar told the Committee during its inauguration that the DTAC had enormous roles to play in the actualization of President Tinubu’s 4-D Foreign Policy Agenda of Democracy, Development Demography, and the Diaspora.

According to the statement, a Professor of Law at the Federal University, Lokoja, Daniel Friday Atidoga, who once served in the TAC Scheme as a Volunteer, said he was particularly, impressed with the quality of the deliberations of the Committee in which he was also a member.

“Having had a personal experience of the TAC Scheme as a participant years ago, I am highly persuaded that the mandate and structure of the Agency ought to be reviewed to reflect newer realities.

The Committee was inaugurated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, early last week with the task of looking through the TAC Documents, including its Handbook and the Act that established the Agency to work out a review that would align with the vision of President Tinubu’s 4-D Foreign Policy initiatives.

The ten-member committee Chaired by Prof. Yusuf Zoaka includes Prof. D. F. Atidoga, Mrs. Ijeoma Bristol Mr. Sani Bako, Dr. Louis Solomon, Dr. Sani Adamu.

Other members are Mr . Jimoh Olajide- Ms Mitchell Nyagba Mr. Ahmed Mohammed Tilde and Mr Suleiman A.