No Going Back On Improved Service Delivery In Lagos – Ambode

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has charged staff of the state civil service to pursue quality service delivery for sustenance of its change campaign.

The governor who was represented by the state Commissioner for Establishment, Training and Pensions, Dr. Akintola Benson-Oke, told participants at a two-day workshop on ‘Quality Improvement In The Public Sector’, said the government is committed to improved public service delivery in the state.

According to him, the need to be proactive in the discharge of their duties had become imperative.

Speaking on the theme of the training: ‘Re-Charting the path to Quality: The Sustainable Road To the Change Mantra’, the Commissioner explained that the training was designed to knit together all the factors and knowledge that would ensure that the current government’s change campaign births the desired results for the Lagos State Civil Service.

Ambode said the state had continued to ensure that ideas and its initiators are guided and sustained for an improved Public Service performance.

“In Lagos state, we have been mindful of avoiding that pitfall. Thus, since the assumption of office in 2015, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has led and supported the Ministry of Establishment, Training and Pensions, to design and deploy a series of trainings and workshops designed to concretise and convert our change mantra into meaningful, measurable, consequential and sustainable change in the Lagos state Civil Service.

“I proceed on the basis that the delivery of value to citizens is the fundamental objective of any democratically-elected government and that in contemporary times, the delivered values must be delivered to the highest possible standard because citizens have become sophisticated and exposed to the standard of governance in other climes such that their expectations have been conditioned demand and insist on compliance with global trends in governance and public administration at all levels of governance,” he said

The governor noted that one of the strategies for improving government perceived performance is by becoming better at collecting and analysing relevant data.

Also speaking , the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, reiterated the need for proper communication between the government and the people for an effective change to come.