BY ISIOMA OKEREKE
The Chairman of the Bureau for Delta State Pensions, Sir Edwin Ogidi-Gbegbaje has said that training enhances competence, skills and knowledge across all professions.
Ogidi-Gbegbaje stated this while playing host to Professional Women Accountants of Nigeria (PROWAN) in his office in Asaba.
According to the Pensions Bureau Chairman, training and retraining of staff has been his core value in all the offices where he worked while in the Delta State Civil Service.
He appreciated the role of PROWAN in promoting and projecting the interest of women, as well as the professional body, as he advised them not to negate the role of men as heads in their endeavours.
The Bureau boss pledged to give the needed support within the limit of resources to all professional training of staff as he recalled the importance of training in meeting up with modern technological advancement.
His words: “Training helps a professional to prove his competence in his or her chosen career; it upgrades membership, enhances knowledge and skills of modern trends. As a bureau, the training and retraining of our officers is a necessity, as it is inevitable.” Acknowledging the importance of women professionals, he said, “The more we can get female professionals in the society, the better it is for us.”
He commended the group for its initiatives in living up to their social responsibility in terms of sensitization programs, and physical and social engagements, all geared towards giving back to the society.
Earlier, the leader of the group, Mrs. Tosan Enkpara, who spoke through the Asaba District Coordinator told the Bureau Chairman that they were there to solicit the Bureau’s assistance to empower Accountants in the Bureau, through internal and external training every year, which would invariably enhance their competence.
According to her, training is a compulsory requirement to retain membership in the Association, as well as the only way to meet up with the new trends in the profession with changes every year. Mrs Enkpara assured the Bureau boss that with proper training, accounts books would be well kept.
