BY VERONICA EBUKU/STELLA ODIKA
THE Senior Policy Adviser to Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Solomon Funkekeme has led a team of Service Compact for All Nigerians, SERVICOM, to the office of the warri, Uvwie and Environs Special Area Development Agency( WUEDA), to explain to the management and staff of the agency, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s directive for its re-introduction as an integral component for the execution and success of his MORE Agenda.
Funkekeme added that he had already begun the exercise in all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs in the state, stressing that SERVICOM was introduced in 2008 through an executive order by a former governor of the state.
He said, “Servicom is new to WUEDA, so we have come to introduce it to the agency. Each past governor had his agenda and each of the agendas had its peculiar service characteristics, so it is important that we migrate from one to another,” he asserted.
According to him, “the MORE Agenda of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori is very germane, so agents of service delivery must be carried along by telling them the tenets of acceptable service delivery.” He said understanding its mandate will help the Agency to perform better.
“This helps you to know whether you have covered all the environs of Warri and Uvwie; whether you are transparent, honest, and effective in the discharge of your duties; and whether you are meeting your targets.”
Describing Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s promise to do more for all Deltans as a huge assignment, he said, “we must all account collectively by adding value. The Governor promised to bring back the lost glory of Warri and its environs and that he would not abandon ongoing projects. So, we are going round all MDAs in the state to ensure that all civil servants are carried along.”
He said WUEDA has a big duty to be fair and balanced in carrying out its assignment in its mandate areas. “All staff should avoid service failure. A SERVICOM unit should be set up in WUEDA immediately. The Agency should have a Charter such as signboards, and stickers that will help announce its purpose and help to create awareness,” he averred.
He said they would add value to the More Agenda of Governor Oborevwori by completing their official tasks on a daily basis. And every Agency must have a SERVICOM unit, as monitoring of staff would help to identify those who are impediments to good service delivery, and such staff should be warned or shown the way out, if found culpable.
Responding, the Director-General of WUEDA, Hon. Prince Godwin Ejinyere thanked the Senior Policy Adviser to the Governor for taking out time to enlighten the Agency’s staff and management on the purpose of SERVICOM.
Prince Ejinyere said he would direct the Director of Admin. and Finance of WUEDA to set up a SERVICOM unit in the agency immediately.
He assured the Senior Policy Adviser to the Governor that WUEDA would take advantage of the SERVICOM unit that would be created, to add value to service delivery, towards achieving the More Agenda of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori.
