Commissioner For Establishment And Training, Ayantayo, Promises Purposeful Leadership
AYANTAYO PROMISES PURPOSEFUL LEADERSHIP FOR MINISTRY
The Honourable Commissioner for Establishments and Training, Mr. Afolabi Ayantayo, has pledged to provide required leadership for the Ministry to actualise its statutory mandate. He made the pledge today at a meeting with the management staff of the ministry.
He assured the staff of the ministry that he was ready to offer required leadership for better performance and demanded greater efforts, co-operation and commitment from all staff promising them that with their support, the ministry would actualise the mandate of Mr. Governor on capacity building.
“I therefore charge you all to intensify your efforts so that we can justify the confidence Mr. Governor reposed in us by delivering on the mandate of the ministry’’, he said.
Describing human resource development as crucial to achieving the THEMES plus Agenda, the Honourable Commissioner, stated that it is imperative to design and pursue capacity building programmes to enhance skills and competencies required to drive Government Agenda.
Whilst commending the organized labour for the relative peace experienced in the State, he assured them that the state government would continue to work closely with the state branch of Nigerian Labour and Trade Union Congress and their affiliates to maintain the industrial peace and harmony.
Speaking generally on his vision for the ministry, Mr. Ayantayo listed his vision to include increasing the number of Public Servants to be trained in a year, improvement in the number of training programmes, maintaining industrial peace and ensuring that the Public Service gets appropriate advice with regard to establishment matters as well as ensuring the target of ‘Pay As You Go’ in the pension administration.
The Honourable Commissioner said the ministry would work in synergy with all relevant agencies to achieve the goal of government in this sector.
In his welcome address, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr. Olawale Musa, expressed confidence in the ability of the new Honourable Commissioner to engender positive change.
Whilst assuring him of the support and commitment of staff towards achieving his visions, he said the ministry needed an individual like him to lead it on account of its strategic position in the governance architecture of the State.
