Delta Government has charged Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and the 25 Local Government Areas in the state to re-open SERVICOM units for effective service delivery.
The Executive Assistant to Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori on Public Enlightenment ( Government Projects and Policies), Mr Olisa Ifeajika stated this while briefing newsmen on Monday in Asaba.
He said that while government was focusing on delivering infrastructure for the people, the public service should be enhanced through effective service delivery to complement.
Ifeajika said that SERVICOM has become an integral part of governance in the state, adding that everybody had a right to be served properly.
According to Ifeajika, Oborevwori is concerned about deteriorating service delivery across the MDAs and LGAs, hence the order to public servants to brace up to the new normal.
He said SERVICOM had been around over the years but had failed to make the necessary changes in ensuring quality service delivery.
Ifeajika said that the workers in the state have been adequately motivated to ensure they deliver optimum service delivery to the people.
According to him, as this administration is continuing with the projects of the previous administrations, Oborevwori’s administration is also interested in ensuring delivery of quality service to the people of the state.
“The new thing is that public service is the blood of government, the brain box but when you have a corrupt undisciplined and irresponsible public service the government of the day is doomed.
“Beyond providing infrastructure for the people there is the need to keep a disciplined public service that will drive service delivery across all MDAs and the local governments.
“SERVICOM was established by the Federal Government in 2004 to render services as it should be in all of its agencies to every Nigerian.
“It was domesticated in Delta in 2009 during the administration of Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan and was signed into law on March 2, 2009.
“As people of Delta, you have the right to be served right by government and the public service drives the process of governance,” Ifeajika said.
“I have come to tell us that aside from providing infrastructure, our dear governor has directed that all public servants must re-enact the culture of SERVICOM.
“SERVICOM in Delta is domiciled in the Office of the Senior Policy Adviser to the Governor, Chief Funkekeme Solomon, and so far they have visited 55 MDAs out of the 132 MDAs and 25 local government councils.
“There is a ‘new Sheriff in town’ and the culture of irresponsible attitude to work is gone.
“When government is providing services like road infrastructure, the public service must be ready to play its role effectively.”
“All MDAs have been told to establish SERVICOM units to ensure compliance in line with the M.O.R.E Agenda of Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori,”he said.
On the use of government lands, Ifeajika said that some persons by way of impunity and blatant arrogance had appropriated government lands for their own use.
“This administration has empowered the taskforce on recovery of government lands to recover every government land across the state.
“If there is any building on those lands they will be pulled down.
“So people are advised to stay away from government lands even in the local government areas.
“There is the popular saying that ‘when there is a will, there is a way’. Here in Delta, there is a will to have a disciplined and accountable public service.
“These policies have come and we must embrace them for the good and sustainable development of our dear state,”he said.(NAN)
