100 days in office: Ikorodu LGA chairman rewards workers with improved welfare package

Bimbo Babatunde

The Chairman of Ikorodu Local Government (LG), Mr Wasiu Adesina has reiterated his administration commitment to an improved workers’ welfare package for better productivity and to boost their morals.

Adesina said this during the distribution of office furniture to mark his 100 days in office at the council secretariat in Ikorodu, Lagos State.

The Ikorodu LGA chairmen was elected and sworn in on July 26, alongside 56 other local government chairmen in Lagos State.

He said: “The local government in its bid to improve the lives of staff releases the sum of N300,000 every month for the staff welfare to take care of the staff needs.

“Today we are happy to inform you that the local government has purchased and will distribute 100 office tables and chairs to all departments.

“The civil servants are the bedrock of any organisation and as such they needed to be catered for.

“For these 100 days in office, our administration chooses to focus on soft projects like empowerment, job creation, sport development and structural review of local government activities.

“We will also embark on a sizeable number of roads and school rehabilitation with the preliminary fixing of our health services basic needs.”

Also speaking, Engr Abiodun Orekoya, Commissioner 1, Lagos State Civil Service Commission, commended the chairman in his quest to improve the welfare of his workers despite the paucity of funds.

According to him, most of the councils in Lagos are viable with ample resources to survive so they should improve on their internal revenue adding that there were lots of untapped resources around them.

He said that it is important to encourage the staff for productivity and to bring money into the council on like in the past when the money is being embezzled and urged other council chairmen to emulate the gesture

“The chairman has done excellently well, taking into cognisance that Ikorodu is not one of the rich local governments.

“He has started with workers welfare and that gives me assurance that he’s going towards a fantastic tenure.

“For him to achieve, he has to make the staff comfortable so that they can work diligently for a better result.

“They have to improve on their revenue generation by exploring all the available untapped resources.

“They have assets, even without Abuja they should be able to survive,” Orekoya said.