Prince Adesegun Olusola Ogunlewe, former Lagos State Head of Service, HoS, in this concluding part of his with Olasunkanmi Akoni, told Labour Vanguard that the 14 weeks old strike by Doctors in the state was his most trying moment. The first part of the interview has earlier been published.
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Major reforms introduced into the state public service Before I became the Head of Service, I was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Establishment, Pensions and Training. When I was in the ministry, Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) gave directive that we should work with a consultancy firm, Messrs. Price Water Cooper House on improving efficiency in public service.
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Under that partnership, we embarked on what we called Project Will: Strategic Management Framework, which was meant to examine the structure of every ministry, what are the resources available, what are the objectives that a ministry or government agency is expected to achieve and are those structures and resources efficient to achieve those objectives. When we submitted the report on the strategic management framework, we are lucky that the United Kingdom Government under the Department for International Development (DFID) came in to assist to implement the report of that framework.
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Till date, we are still partnering with the DFID to ensure that all the areas of laxity are blocked and the gaps filled so that we can achieve efficiency in the public service. One of those things we have done is the development of Service Charters, which are placed in strategic locations for members of the public to know what we are capable of doing for them and a timeframe we are ready to render such services. If the services are not rendered with the timeframe, they can challenge us on why we did not make good our promises. And we are bound to explain and adjust in the way we respond to requests from members of the public.
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Wish left unachieved while serving as the HoS Within the period I was HoS, our programme with DFID should have moved faster than where we are today. But all said and done, the programme is on stream. I will have loved the programme moves faster. By now we should have gone live in all agencies. Some of the policies we are expected to embark upon in implementing the programme are before the State Executive Council for approval. I will have loved the approval was obtained before my exit from the public service.
Everything is just not working in that sector. So i don't blame them when they do things like this