Lagos charges directors on accountability, transparency

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Top government functionaries and some of the trainees during the orientation training at PSSDC, Magodo on Monday.

Top government functionaries and some of the trainees during the orientation training at PSSDC, Magodo on Monday.
The Lagos State Government has charged directors in the state public service to embrace accountability and transparency in the discharge of their duties.

Chairman, Local Government Service Commission, Alhaji Babatunde Rotinwa, who spoke at the flag-off of a 10 week orientation and specialized training programme for newly redeployed management staff from the 57 Local Government and Local Council Development Areas to the mainstream public service, at the Public Service Staff Development Centre, PSSDC, Magodo, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Monday, said the 37 directors and deputy directors must embrace accountability and transparency.

He also charged them to shun the usual practice of monopoly of knowledge common at the Local Government level and imbibe the practice of wide consultation.

Rotinwa said the usual practice of limiting ideas to head of administrations, council treasurers and Local Government Chairmen should be discouraged, stressing that decision making process in the State Public service was carried out in a collective manner with input from all relevant stakeholders.

Flagging off the training,, Lagos State Acting Head of Service, Mrs. Folashade Adesoye, said the redeployment of the directors from Local Government Service Commission was part of the ongoing reforms at the Local Government and State Public Service levels.

She challenged the newly redeployed staff to see the enlistment of Lagos State as one of the 100 Resilient cities in the world as a new challenge for them to further place the State on international sphere.

“Lagos State will now be benchmarked with developed cities in the world and the parameter for measuring the achievements of the State would no longer be based on the performance of any Nigerian State but with international yardstick,” she said.

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Adesoye urged the officers to research into ways to expand the activities of the State Public Service to accommodate best practices and be at par with the likes of New York and other developed cities in the world.

She said government’s conviction was now anchored on the belief that meeting the yearnings of its entire citizenry, now and in the future, depended largely on the competence and capability of its workforce, hence the need to have the right quantity and quality of staff with the right knowledge, techniques and skills and the right frame of mind and attitude to contribute optimally to the attainment of government’s policies and objectives.

The Director-General, PSSDC, Mrs. Olubunmi Fabanwo said that the training would assist government achieve its vision of harmonizing the entire public service, build the capacity of staff across all tiers and levels, understand and implement the policy thrust of government for sustainable achievements.

This, according to her, necessitated the state government’s continual investment in capacity building through learning and development seminars, induction/orientation courses, among many other interventions with the aim to continually promote governance excellence in the State.

She disclosed that government, in its effort to ensure effective internalization of the newly redeployed directors, the training programme had been built around on-field learning such that at the end of the first week, participants would proceed for eight weeks, to gather monitored on-field experience at identified Ministries, Department, Agencies, MDAs across the service and later return to PSSDC at the beginning of the 10th week for the completion of the induction process.

-Kazeem Ugbodaga

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