HoCSF MEETS WITH STAFF: URGES THEM TO EMBRACE CHANGE

HoCSF MEETS WITH STAFF: URGES THEM TO EMBRACE CHANGE

In line with administrative rudiments and the need to regularly keep in touch with employees and feel their pulse, the HoSF, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, CFR, met with the Staff of the OHCSF on Thursday, September 14, 2023. While acknowledging the fact that Civil Servants are faced with economic hardship occasioned by the recent petroleum subsidy removal, she hinted that the government is, however, putting plans in place to roll out palliative measures to cushion the effect of the present predicament.
Dr. Yemi-Esan, CFR urged staff to be up and doing with their job, insisting that laziness will not be condoned while stressing that “if Civil Servants do not do their work well, our country will not change in line with global competitiveness, We should start to look at ourselves to effect the change we desire.”
In accordance with the Renewed Hope Agenda of the present Administration, she stated that Civil Servants must play sacrificial roles in enhancing effective service delivery, adding that as initiators of government policies, workers are largely responsible for implementing them.
The meeting aims to update Civil Servants on what the Office has been doing to strengthen the Service and ensure that Civil Servants compete favourably in tandem with global best practices.
Setting the agenda for the town hall meeting, the association/joint union council chairman, OHCSF chapter, and Comrade Sylvester Ameh praised the HoCSF for her doggedness in revamping the service. He encouraged staff to make judicious use of the opportunity to bare their minds on issues hindering optimal performance while asking for improvement in the areas of staff housing, upward review of staff welfare packages, migration of salaries, proper placement and posting of Directors and retirement packages.
Other issues raised include delays in conversion processes, epileptic electric power supply and the need for a holistic alternative source of power, activation of online training and promotion examinations, restoration of gratuity allowance, prompt payment of retirees’ benefits, Agripreneurship programme, pension remittances, NHIS for retirees and lots more.
Management provided satisfactory responses to most of the problems highlighted, e.g., the provision of 500KW solar-powered electricity, the ongoing repair and procurement of staff buses, enhanced salary, well-care, and welfare regimes, computer-based COMPRO examination, and P-P-Ps, while promising to address the others.