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FCT Minister blast workers over poor sanitation, work attitude 

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT ) Minister, Mallam Muhammad Bello on Tuesday berated civil servants working in the territory for their poor attitude to work and sanitation.

The minister expressed his dissatisfaction over the issues at a one-day Seminar on National Strategy on Public Service Reforms,  organised by the newly created FCT Department of Reform  Coordination and Service Improvement in collaboration with the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR).
Bello said that public servants cannot drive reform strategies efficiently and effectively when they cannot change their attitude towards work place sanitation and in the manner general office obligations are carried out.
He condemned a situation where visitors cannot access public toilets at offices, because either that the places are unkempt or that one senior officer has selfishly personalized such place to the detriment of others.
While Bello also frowned at workers’ lateness to work, not being responsive to urgent matters, by not treating official files with dispatch, he equally berated them for permitting petty trading within the work environment and allowing strangers to loiter around unnecessarily.
“Public servants must not lose sight of the ultimate goal of reform,  which is to provide service delivery,  because as a public servant, is supposed to provide service and to a very large extent, sometimes,  we intend to ignore those who are the recipients of such services.
“As people visit our offices to transaction business with us and don’t have access to public convenient,  most offices where you go to, the senior officers keep keys to the public convenience and personalize it, when a visitor comes and need to use the convenience, you will hear is the Oga’s key.
“In our office environment,  we have to make sure that the public convenience is okay for us and others, including visitors, and the only way is that senior officers have to always visit the places and see to its cleanliness,” he said.

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