Investing in strategies that can motivate workforce to discharge their duties effectively are crucial factors in promoting optimum performance and productivity.
Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Ganiyu Hamzat, stated this while delivering his keynote address at a two-day strategic retreat at Ijebu-Ode, with the theme, ‘’Reinvigorating The Workforce for Increased Productivity”, for professionals and sub-cadre officers in the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
Hon. Hamzat said it was imperative to reinvigorate the workforce for increased productivity and attainment of sustainable success in the state Public Service for efficient and effective service delivery of the entire workforce.
He stated that the retreat would encapsulate important areas that would add value to staffers’ work and well-being, enjoining participants to take advantage of the training to improve their skills, to further enhance increased efficiency, 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, maintaining that productivity in the Public Sector was not just a function of hard-work or effort, but rather, an end-result of 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 government had priortised wealth creation, employment generation, poverty reduction and value re-orientation at the local level, revealing that the workshop was targeted at identifying challenges, 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, enjoining them to also familiarise with basic provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for effective service delivery and for the betterment of the state.
According to him, “Civil Servants must be conversant and be abreast of relevant constitution and have a good understanding of principles, as well as the provisions, as it relates to individual career, as well as Civil Service”.
In their separate remarks, two participants, Mr. Ajibose Oyede and Mrs. Alinson Sekinat, commended the management of the Ministry for organising the training towards improving the productivity of its workforce, promising that knowledge gained would reflect in the discharge of their duties.