Ministry tasks staff on attitudinal change

 

The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, has reaffirmed its commitment towards mitigating unethical conduct and corrupt tendencies in the work place, through public education, enlightment creation and sensitisation workshops for effective service delivery.
Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Bolaji Adebiyi who was represented by the Director, Human Resources Management, Abdulrahim Ajibola Ibrahim, stated this at a one-day sensitisation workshop for management staff on “Public sector corruption and risk mitigation and work ethics”.
Adebiyi emphasised that the anti-corruption crusade is premised on the quest to institutionalise good governance as panacea for inclusive growth and development in the pursuit of government agenda of openness, probity self-discipline, transparency and accountability, to positively transform the Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
According to him, “the government’s crusade of national rebirth and social regeneration was necessitated by the need to urgently correct the damage done to MDAs image over the years.
“Fortunately, this administration has successfully diagnosed the bane and has strengthened the required legal frame work to combat corruption at all levels, including all MDAs, with the aim of bringing about a new social economic and political order.”
“We all recognise, however, that the fight against corruption is not an end. The end is durable transformation of our society and our nations’ institutions of governance, so as to usher in a culture of good governance and integrity,” Aebiyi added.
He called on all participants to take full advantage of the workshop as a wake-up call towards updating their knowledge in order to facilitate effective discharge of their assigned responsibilities.
The PS, however, advocated for attitudinal change to be embraced by the participants towards sensitising them against evils of corruption, the need to have a zero tolerance for corruption and to accept the danger corruption poses to development.
Earlier in her remarks, Chairman, Anti-corruption and Transparency Unit of the ministry, Mrs. Caroline Naanpoe Hata, said since the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, efforts had been sustained towards fighting the cankerworm of corruption.
She said, “it is to the credit of Mr. President that he has not relented in his effort because he sees corruption as a virus that threatens the very fabric of our society which, if not seriously addressed, is capable of endangering the present and future of the staff, and that of our children.”
While calling on all concerned to expose corruption wherever it is found, she described publicity as a powerful tool in the fight against corruption.

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