Sanwo-Olu Presents 10 Cars To Lagos Outstanding Civil Servants

Sanwo-Olu Presents 10 Cars To Lagos Outstanding Civil Servants

July 8, 2021

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu presented 10 cars to public servants who have distinguished themselves in the junior and senior categories across the state’s civil service.

The governor who appreciated the public servants at the luncheon with the Year 2019/ 2020 outstanding officers, (Junior and Senior categories) in Ministries Departments and Agencies, Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas held in Ikeja, urged officers in Lagos State civil service to continue to be change agents and outstanding public servants.

The Governor also announced a N5million cash gift for a Level 16 officer in Public Service Staff Development Centre, Mr. Taofeek Oladiran Ajetunmobi for winning an impromptu quiz competition personally coordinated by the state’s chief executive.

Sanwo-Olu who urged the civil servants to continue strive for excellence and live as an example in whatever they do also enjoined them not to give up in being the best to justify the confidence reposed in them.

The recipients of the cars who emerged through a raffle draw at the grand finale of activities lined up to commemorate the Year 2021 Public Service Day, comprised four junior and six senior officers.

Recipients in the junior category were Basirat Shogbola, Olalere Alaka, Kikelomo Ogunbiaro and Olufunmilayo Alase, while those in the senior category were Olanrewaju Jaji, Olayiwola Odukoya, Adekunle Ipaye, Waheed Alaba, Victoria Adegbite and Olanrewaju Disu.

Earlier, the Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola, urged the awardees not to rest on their oars but continue to exhibit the high sense of responsibility, diligence, commitment to duty and unalloyed loyalty which are the qualities and values for which they have been recognised.

He said 166 out of 180 nominees were recommended for the Outstanding Officers’ Award, noting that the awardees comprised 101 officers in the senior category and 65 officers in the junior category.

The Head of Service said this year’s public service week featured various activities, which included mass work for fitness, variety show, among others, adding that the objective of the best officer awards was in a bid to recognize and reward excellence.