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The Chairman of Ekiti State Local Government Service Commission, Samuel Abejide, has warned the directors and other heads of departments in the commission to live up to their responsibilities as leaders to achieve the objective of his administration to change the face of local government administration in the state.
In a statement personally signed by the chairman, he said the directors and heads of departments will be held responsible for any acts inimical to the realisation of the new drive to reposition local governments for effective service delivery at the grassroots.
Abejide gave the warning at an emergency meeting with the directors after an unscheduled inspection of their offices on Thursday. Some of the officials were not on their seats as at 9am when he led other commissioners to assess the level of compliance with the early resumption directive.
Warning that it would not longer be business as usual, he said the new administration would not tolerate dereliction of duty and absenteeism like was the case in the past, adding that government would not engage in additional responsibility of monitoring attendance since the heads of department are responsible to enforce government’s directives.
Noting that although there is an improvement in workers’ attitude to work since the assumption of office of the present Commission, he said a lot still needed to be done by heads of department to achieve government’s objectives.
“Government is not going to establish monitoring cadets that were tagged Boko Haram in the last dispensation; directors and heads of department will do it as their official responsibility.
“Any head of department found wanting will have himself to blame because we cannot continue with the present attitude that government’s business is nobody’s business.
“We must note that what creates happiness for us is to wake up every morning and set out for our daily office work for which we receive our monthly wage to take care of our needs, but when we intentionally absent ourselves from office or come late to the office everyday, then something must be wrong with our mindset and this administration is set to change that orientation for effective administration at the grassroots,” Abejide said.
Responding on behalf of the directors and heads of department, Head of Local Government Administration, Babatunde Jegede, apologised for the observed lapses, promising a change of attitude on the part of the workers.
Stanley Abiodun Familoye
Deputy Director, Information
For the Chairman
