In a move to demand maximum output from senior government officials directly under the Executive Wing, they would be required henceforth to sign one-year performance contracts to determine their stay on the job, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf disclosed Thursday at her Foreign Ministry Office.

The new Executive policy, if implemented, will require senior government officials to submit their planned deliverables, which President Sirleaf said, “will be enforced to the letter”.

“All high level political appointees will be required to sign a one-year performance contract in which they will give me established goals and what they need to achieve these goals,” the President stressed.

She said, at the end of the one-year, the appointees would be evaluated on the basis of the quality of their performance to determine their continuation or not on the job.

“Though the policy is new,” President Sirleaf said: “We are going to enforce it to make sure that people carry the right amount of performance on their jobs and that they achieve the goals that we all want to see so that our development agenda can be realized.”

In direct response to critics that the appointments thus far are not inclusive, the President stressed: “I want to also use this occasion to assure all Liberians that the government will be inclusive.”

She denied reports that the government comprises senior officials who served in the past regime, adding,  “Other appointments are coming”.

President Sirleaf disclosed the new policy when she announced outgoing Foreign Minister Toga Gayewea McIntosh as Vice Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Dr. Amos Sawyer as head of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).

Dr. McIntosh served as Minister of Foreign Affairs while Dr. Sawyer headed the Governance Commission that recently completed the Decentralization Policy reducing the concentration of political power in Monrovia.

She said government was proud over the selections of these eminent Liberians based on “their past performances as being right direction”.