Appoint chartered accounts into your cabinet —ICAN
“However, another quick and bold action that the President must take as he considers his ministers is the appointment of more chartered accountants in his cabinet. The socio-political challenges facing Nigeria today call for the intervention of chartered accountants in public governance. Chartered accountants should man key sensitive positions requiring proper accountability as there cannot be effective public governance without accountants.
“The study we conducted provides evidence that shows that there is a positive correlation between having more chartered accountants within a workforce and better organisational performance. In other words, organisations that employ more chartered accountants perform better than those employing less chartered accountants in terms of service delivery and financial performance. This has been proven empirically by drawing experiences from Zenith Bank, Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), and the Lagos State government. These three organisations span the private sector, a government agency and state government respectively”
“We believe that President Tinubu’s administration will experience the same performance success if more chartered accountants are engaged by his administration.
“Today we are looking for a Minister of Finance that will clean up government monetary policy. What we need is a chartered accountant economist i.e. an economist that is a chartered accountant and not just an economist alone.
“We want to state that within the ICAN chartered accountants, we have economists, engineers, doctors, pharmacists, architects, political scientists, pastors, imams, you name it. So inherent in ICAN chartered accountants are other disciplines, while accounting and finance predominate.
“When accountability permeates every cabinet member and his or her ministry, corruption will be minimised, better governance elevated and Nigerians will instantly begin to feel the dividend of democracy. Incidentally, the President is an accountant and understands what we are saying here.”
