Lagos State Head of Service, HOS, Mrs. Folasade Adesoye formally bowed out of service with the ceremonial pull-out in her honour yesterday after 35 years of service in the state civil service.
The pull-out ceremony took place at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium Alausa Secretariate, Ikeja with thousands of well-wishers in attendance. She was HOS for 14 months.
Speaking at the Valedictory and Pull-out ceremony, Adesoye lamented the increasing incidence of mental health challenges within the public service and the necessity to address the issues as a matter of urgency.
“I wish to encourage health sector stakeholders’ forum to facilitate a holistic discussion of issues affecting the sector in general with a view to developing a new road map. It is also important that the momentum of ongoing reforms of public service processes and procedures be sustained and aggressively cascaded to the Unified Local Government Service in order to maximise its benefits,” she said.
Adesoye called for adequate funding and effective staffing of the State’s Office of City Resilience considering its critical role in Lagos State’s long term environmental sustainability.
She urged civil servants to brace up for the challenges of the future public service, saying that one did not need a crystal ball to know that in the foreseeable future, the public service would be innovative and technology-driven.
“It would be one in which skills, knowledge, creativity, talent, competence and performance would be the primary determinant of relevance, promotion and advancement.
“Therefore, regardless of institutionalised staff motivation and/or performance reward system, I encourage you to find time to develop yourselves. Seek knowledge relentlessly, pursue education at all cost and be resilient in spirit, be optimistic about the future and invest completely and absolute trust in God,” she counselled.
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