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The Lagos State government on Tuesday started a campaign aimed at introducing what it described as “a new world view” by the state’s public servants.
The state also said it would do a “systematic elimination of red-tapism, complacency and status quo” in the public service for effective service delivery.
Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions, Dr. Akintola Benson Oke, made this known to journalists at the
Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Ikeja,where he delivered a keynote address titled, “Advocacy of The Mindset: Cultivating and Sustaining A Growth Mindset in The Lagos State Public Service.”
He said, given the status of the state as an emerging smart city,there was the need to develop public servants that could “change the status quo, cut through red-tapism and complacency.
Public servants should be able to “bring new ideas to the table, think outside the box, think positively, be proactive and able to make decisions with little or no supervision,” according to him.
“The fixed mindset of civil servants which leads to redundancy has to be changed to a growth mindset,” Oke said.
He said the essence of the advocacy will be to challenge and encourage all officers of the Lagos State public service to embrace a growth mindset.
“Every officer of the Lagos state public service with a growth mindset will be ready and equipped to assume leadership of assigned tasks, including the ability and readiness to take initiatives and decisions,” the Commissioner explained.
Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan, who also lent his voice to the campaign, said the initiative would be a continuous exercise.
He added that the citizens now demand quality services and fair value and that it is bravery on the part of the government to “identify and admit its weaknesses, and to step up a gear to correct that shortfall.”
