The Ogun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Ganiyu Hamzat, has called for investing in strategies that can motivate the workforce to discharge their duties effectively and promote optimum performance and productivity.
Hamzat, in a statement on Friday, made this call while delivering his keynote address at a two-day strategic retreat held at Ijebu-Ode for the staff of the Ministry.
The training has as its theme ‘’Reinvigorating The Workforce for Increased Productivity”.
The Commissioner said, “It is imperative to reinvigorate the workforce for increased productivity and attainment of sustainable success in the state Public Service while also enhancing efficient and effective service delivery.
“The retreat will encapsulate important areas that will add value to staffers’ work and well-being, and so, participants must take advantage of the training to improve their skills to achieve the vision and mission of the agency, thereby contributing meaningfully to individual prosperity and continued development of the state.”
Declaring the workshop open, Ogun State Head of Service, Mr. Kehinde Onasanya, said the training was timely, as it allows officers to re-align with the goals of government.
Onasanya maintained that productivity in the public sector was not just a function of hard work or effort, but rather, an end result of a motivated, well-equipped and purpose-driven workforce.
He added that the training would further boost productivity across various agencies for effective service delivery, emphasising that capacity building of the workforce should be sustained to engender a productive workforce.
Contributing, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Razak Daddah, noted that the training was imperative to create a healthy and wealthy nation, imploring participants to duly unleash the knowledge garnered into practical terms at their various fields of endeavours.
In his remarks, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Rotimiolu Akinlesi, while exposing the vision of the Ministry, informed that the government had prioritised wealth creation, employment generation, poverty reduction and value re-orientation at the local level.
Akinlesi revealed that the workshop was targeted at identifying challenges and brainstorming for possible solutions aimed at achieving the set objectives of the Ministry in tandem with the ISEYA mantra of the present administration.
In his lecture, the Deputy Director, Civil Litigations and Advisory, Ministry of Justice, Mr. Richard Manuwa, said that Civil Servants must endeavour to acquaint themselves with the provision of Public Service rules and other books in order to be effective and avoid mistakes that could truncate their career in the Civil Service.
Manuwa enjoined the workers to also familiarise themselves with the basic provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for effective service delivery and for the betterment of the state.