A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ikorodu Constituency, Hon Babajimi Benson, has said regular training of local government’s executives will boost their service delivery.
Benson said the training, aside ensuring good governance, leaders of the various local governments, would be able to effect positive changes in the lives of their constituents as they are the closest to the grassroots.
He stated this at the retreat for the six local government’s executives in Ikorodu Federal Constituency by ICare Foundation in Lagos.
It had as theme: “Impacting the electorates, achieving good governance and legislative excellence”.
“The need to improve the quality of lives of the people is why we are here. It is a new year, a time where leaders set goals and we, representing the Ikorodu division, second largest constituency in Lagos, so we brought people who can function, maximise and add value to the people who elected them. It is a time that we have to ensure that the electorates are happy and it is a penultimate year to election, so we need to set goals and try as possible to achieve the goals,” he said.
On what to expect from the maiden training attended by the six local government chairmen, vice chairmen, councillors, supervisors and influential people in the Ikorodu constituency, Benson said: “My expectation is that the training got will be optimised, add value to governance and the leaders will have better things to discuss and achieve for the electorates. We want to deliver the whole of ikorodu to the performing governor who has inspired us to work harder, and the training will be regular, continuous and constitent as promised by the life coach, the catalyst, Mr Lanre Olusola, who is here with his organisation.”
A former secretary to the Lagos state government, Asiwaju Olorunfunmi Bashorun, said the training was welcome as over five million residents of Ikorodu would indirectly benefit from it.
He commended Hon. Benson on the initiative, affirming that more of such would grow Ikorodu and Lagos in general.
The trainer/Head of the Olusola Lanre Coaching Academy (OLCA), Mr Olusola Lanre, said leaders fail because they set too many unrealistic goals. He said he was part of the initiative was real change would begin in the country in the year.
On political leadership issues, he said: “The proper thing is to first accept that we are Nigerians which is not a geographical space, not natural resources under the ground or the air we breathe but is us and if we want to move the nation forward, we need to make our commitment to the leadership that drive this nation forward and people in leadership need to be equipped with the right mindset to be able to create an enabling vision and build on it.
”To be able to do that, they need to take control of their lives, set goals and achieve them. They need to build themselves first, so the programme is about self leadership, helping the leaders develop their own personal goals and visions in their own constituents and get what they want to see in the next three years, five years, two years, one year and how do they see themselves achieve those things and how they see themselves.”