The Lagos State Government has announced its commitment to enhance employee training by increasing the number of public servants trained annually and improving training programs.
According to The PUNCH, the statement was made during a meeting with the management team of the Ministry of Establishments and Training at Alausa.
The newly appointed Commissioner for Establishments and Training, Mr. Afolabi Ayantayo, emphasized the importance of human resource development in realizing Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s T.H.E.M.E.S.+ Agenda.
He assured the ministry’s staff of his readiness to provide leadership for improved performance and called for increased efforts, cooperation, and commitment from all employees, emphasizing that their support would help fulfill Governor Sanwo-Olu’s mandate 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.
He went on to say that it is critical to plan and implement capacity-building programmes in order to improve the skills and competences required to drive the government agenda.
Ayantayo, who commended organised labour for the relative peace in the state, said the “state government would continue to work closely with the state branches of the Nigerian Labour and Trade Union Congress and their affiliates to maintain the industrial peace and harmony.”
He added that his vision is to “increase the number of public servants to be trained in a year, improve on the number of training programmes, maintain industrial peace and ensure 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.”
