New Year: Lagos Public Servants must rededicate themselves to service – HOS

By Kazeem Ugbodaga

Lagos State Head of Service, HOS, Folasade Adesoye has charged public servants in the state to rededicate themselves for effective service delivery in this New Year.

Adesoye spoke on Tuesday at the Inter-religious prayer for public servants on the first working day of the year, which took place at the Adeyemi-Bero Auditorium, Lagos State Government Secretariat, Alausa in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

She said if the budget of N1.046 trillion budgeted for 2018 by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode must be effectively implemented, public servants must rededicate themselves to the key objectives of the Public Service Management reforms, particularly the ideals of the Service Charter.

“As public servants, we have committed ourselves to services that the public expect to get. Every public servant must therefore be knowledgeable about the services provided in the agencies where we are deployed and how such services are provided.

“It is only when you are guided at all times by the vision, mission and core values of your agency that you can make meaningful impact to the attainment of the agency’s mandate and ultimately contribute to the achievement of government’s overall policy objectives,” she said.

Adesoye stated that public servants must know that the funds which would guarantee the continued provision of efficient and effective public service delivery to the teeming Lagos population would be generated by them as the Internally Generated Revenue, IGR of the state government must be scaled up.

The HOS also emphasized the need for public servants to pay more attention to their personal health, stressing that they had a responsibility to themselves to ensure that they remained in an excellent state of physical well-being.

“We should not wait until crisis sets in before we act. It is only them that we can give our best to both our employer and our families. Accordingly, the state government’s policy on mandatory periodic medical examination for civil servants will be strictly monitored this year,” she said, while charging the permanent secretaries to take note of this.

In his sermon, Acting Chaplain, Chapel of Christ the Light, Rev. Ayo Olu-Oyadotun urged public servants to be efficient in their work and shun all forms of backbiting and tale bearing, saying that they would reap whatever they sowed.

However, prayers were offered by both Muslim and Christian clerics at the occasion.