By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye
Executive Chairman of Ughelli North Local Government Council, Olorogun Jaro Egbo, has promised a better working and clean environment for council staff.
Jaro Egbo stated this at the Ughelli North Council Secretariat on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, during the handing over ceremony done by the Head of Personnel Management HPM of the council.
The Chairman who inspected various offices, however lamented the poor state of infrastructures and furnitures in all the offices l, stating that the staff deserve some comfort at their place of work and a conducive environment.
“I am not too pleased with what I saw in the offices. No good chairs and tables for staff’s to do their jobs comfortably and there is no television set in any of these offices, which is poor , he stated.
“Television is not a luxury but a means and medium of information dissemination. You can be here working and something is happening that you wish to know. So it is a digital word we are today and we must be ICTÂ oriented. I am also surprise that things are still done analogue with the use of manual typewriters and no information offices.
” It is not my style to work in a dirty environment, and if Ughelli must be clean, it must begin from the council Secretariat. We have environment officers here, and if maybe, they were not being encouraged, we will encourage them to enforce environmental laws and make the town clean”.
Olorogun Jaro Egbo also extended his inspection to the old Secretariat where he lamented the dilapidated state of the facilities at the revenue offices, but promise to give all that a face lift soonest.
On revenue generation, the chairman promised an increase revenue generation and ensure all revenue generated are paid directly into the council treasury rather than private pockets.
“We need money to work, and the little internally generated revenue that goes into committee pockets must stop as it will not be business as usual.”
Egbo who promise to hit the ground running, said security issues will be tackled squarely as community policing through the vigilantes will be encouraged and mobilized. He said, areas were kidnappers and robbers are hibernating will be bulldozed about kilometer from where they are gathering.