We project him because his got good profile and clean sheet. Engr. He is a foundation member of the PTFP from its inception in June 2010.
Reynolds Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack, FNSE, was appointed as the Chairman of the PTFP by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on September 5, 2012. He had earlier served as the Senior Special Assistant to the President & later as the Senior Performance Monitor (SPM) for the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) on the PTFP. An accomplished and chartered civil engineer, a Fellow of the Nige
rian Society of Engineers (FNSE), Beks has core competence in a wide variety of disciplines spanning over thirty years of public & private sector experience. These areas include major infrastructure development and maintenance; policy & programme management in privatization, public-private partnerships, the power & aviation sectors. He also has hands-on experience in the downstream oil and gas sector where he rose to management level. His most recent professional engagement has been performance monitoring, evaluation & facilitation for over four hundred ongoing power projects being delivered by the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP). Prior to joining the PTFP, between 1997 and 2007, Beks had served twice as Honourable Commissioner for Works and Transport in the cabinet of the Rivers State Government. During his first outing, he executed several infrastructure projects, mostly to upgrade the facilities in Port Harcourt to absorb the urban population explosion of that era & in his second outing, he set out an integrated urban mass transport policy reform framework, providing a clear two-year roadmap which included the banning of “okada” & introduction of Multi-modal urban transport system driven on private-public partnership models. Most of the reform milestones in that roadmap formed the implementation targets of succeeding administrations. Prior to his second appointment to the Rivers State cabinet, he was earlier in 2007 appointed Sole administrator of the Rivers State Transport Corporation (RTC) which he transformed from a moribund State Agency into a viable self-sustaining commercial enterprise by reactivating its dormant assets, changing the employee culture & repositioning the company to become competitive, all in less than six months. Engr Dagogo-Jack also has a rich track record of service at the Federal level . In 1996, he was appointed a member of a six-man Special Federal Government Committee for sharing the assets and liabilities of two pairs of newly created states: Sokoto/Zamfara and Bauchi/Gombe. This involved a detailed assessment of the full gamut of the public sector profile of the defunct States including health, education & other institutions; infrastructure; enterprises; loans; donor aid programmes; employment; pension/retirement benefits; etc., and the sharing of these by an equitable formula with peaceful resolution of a wide range of contentious issues in order to ensure the smooth take-off of the emergent new states. Between 1992 and 1994, Beks served as Deputy Director / Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Technical Committee of Privatisation & Commercialisation (now BPE) under the Late Dr H R Zayyad and was fully involved with the preparation of enterprise reform packages for NEPA, NITEL, NPA, Federal Mortgage Bank, etc. He was also Secretary to the Nigeria Airways Privatisation Sub-Committee (the ‘Air Nigeria’ project). As Special Assistant to the Chairman, he had access to and interaction with all the policy/programme processes which drove the agenda of the Committee and interacted fully with all the departments in cooperating on policy or programme matters. Between 1990 & 1992, Beks served as Special Assistant (Technical) to the Honourable Minister of Aviation. He was directly involved with the development of the very first airline license liberalisation policy in Nigeria which broke the monopoly of Nigeria Airways in the domestic market. His other key involvements included the reform of the national aviation management agencies and the comprehensive rehabilitation of the then three international airports (Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt). He also served on the Board of the Nigerian Airports Authority (now FAAN). Engineer Dagogo-Jack started his career in the downstream petroleum sector, spanning between 1982 to 1989. In this period he worked with two majors, Unipetrol Nigeria Plc now Oando Plc and Elf Petroleum Nigeria Ltd, now Total Nigeria. Scope of work covered included retail outlet development and maintenance; product supply logistics; production of lubricants, LPG and then general district management. He held the following job positions at different times in that period : District Engineer, Divisional Engineer, Divisional Operations Engineer, Supply and Distribution Manager, Lubricant Plant Manager, and District Manager. Beks graduated June 1980 from the University of Benin with a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering, second class upper division with distinctions in hydraulics & advanced structures. He used his spare time to complete the coursework for a part time executive MBA from the University of Lagos and has also attended several advanced management & engineering courses in the United States & Nigeria. Born in Abonnema, Rivers State, Beks is married to Hon.Justice Harriba J. Dagogo-Jack and they are blessed with four children namely, Daboju a lawyer, Ibimina, a medical doctor, Datonye and Soibi who are undergraduates. He plays golf for recreation and his reading interests span politics, development, history and leadership.
