Lagos tasks public servants on commitment to service delivery

Lagos State Government has advised public servants in the state to show more commitment to service delivery and make themselves relevant and indispensable.

The state’s Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions, Mrs. Ajibola Ponnle, gave the advice, at the weekend, at a training organised for senior officers in the state public service, with the theme, “Excellent Customer Service Delivery,” held in Gbagada, Lagos.

Ponnle, who stated that the approach and orientation of public servants to service delivery must change for the better, said those who add more to the system would have more opportunity of being rewarded.

She, therefore, charged participants to aspire to become indispensable in their offices, adding that in spite of the orientation on growth mind-set, nothing appeared to have changed in the service.

The commissioner said that if we could get it right in public service, the country would move forward.

“For the country to make progress, we need to do whatever we can at our different levels to change the story because every little thing you do as officers in your offices, goes a long way,” she said.

She admonished participants to take the course seriously and put whatever is learnt at the training programme to use at work, adding that it is the responsibility of officers to leave the service better than they met it.

“We need to serve the people around us in a diligent manner’, she stated. She said that the overall objective of the training programme of the state government was to give officers learning, create access to learning, as well as provide opportunity to practise what is learnt.