By Kemi Olatunde

The need for Change Ambassadors to embrace effective and efficient service delivery in order to improve the society has been stressed

Ondo State Head of Service, Pastor Niran Adeyemo said this during a workshop on performance appraisal template and recapitulation session for the Ondo Service Improvement (ODSIP) Change Ambassadors in Akure.

According to him, it is important that they engrave their names in the annals of history of positive change in the state through positive contributions.

He added that they develop themselves in all facets which their work schedule demands in order to achieve not just effective service delivery but also policy implementation of the REDEEMED agenda of the present government.

Adeyemo who stated that the meeting will be the last he will be privileged to interact with Change Ambassadors as he will in few days pens down from the civil service,  expressed appreciation to them for their input in the State and urged them to put in more work in ensuring an improved state.

Speaking briefly with The Hope, the Head of Service  noted some of his achievements in his 16 months in the office had been regular annual promotion in the civil service.

 He added  that ODSIP which was established by his predecessor, Mr Dare Aragbaiye, has moved forward under his watch.

He said; “there was no industrial strike during my tenure and I am not taking that for granted. Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu approved the new Civil Service rule and Civil Service Commerce Regulation which was last done in 1999.”

He added that there was also the cleaning of the payroll to remove infraction in the system, noting that it also constituted Board of Pension Commission and computerized pension payment.

While thanking Aragbaiye for initiating ODSIP as part of reform agenda, he charged Change Ambassadors on the need for deligence to better the society.

Speaking earlier, Administrative Secretary, Department of Public Service Reform and Development, Mr Adewale Omomowo stressed the need for participants to put in more efforts in reforming the civil service through giving adequate publicity to ODSIP tenets, holding regular mentoring clinics as well as collection and circulation of the ODSIP newsletter as and when due.

He said that it is crucial that they intensify efforts in educating, enlightening and sensitising the civil service in the various MDAs.

He thanked the Head of Service for his love for the participants, noting that his tenure has contributed positively to the improvement of the civil service and urged him to continue to invest his pool of resources in the society and humanity as he retires.

The event also featured recapitulation of all lectures of interactive sessions from second quarter of  the year 2021 to second quarter of year 2022 and also a workshop on the Performance Appraisal Template.