The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) is to provide 900,000 jobs and support 100,000 medium scale enterprises in the state between now and 2019, its Executive Secretary, Akintunde Oyebode, has said.
He spoke ahead of the Fund’s workshop for business owners in the state. He said the development was necessary to create a viable business environment in Lagos.
He emphasised that the agency was mandated to provide training and job placements for the unemployed; mentorship for business owners and improvement of the policy environment to ensure a conducive operational environment for small businesses in the state
He explained that the workshop was being targeted at the LSETF beneficiaries who qualify for export because of the goods they produce, adding that the agency intended to provide business support, advisory services and access to new markets for all its beneficiaries.
“That is why we have partnered the Lagos chapter of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) to help achieve this. In addition to the Nigerian Export Promotion Council sessions, we will also have facilitators from the Nigerian Customs Service and NAFDAC,” he said.
In a related event, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has charged the state civil servants to be transparent in government activities, finances and create a simple bureaucratic process for its citizens.
He urged the civil servants to comply with global best practices to meet the needs of the people. Ambode, who was represented by the Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions, Dr. Benson Oke, spoke on global best practice with reporters in Lagos.
He pointed out that the state had embarked on massive training for workers on how to deliver value per excellence through global best practices.
He called on the workers to provide citizens with the information they need on how to process their requests, stressed that this would enable the citizens to complete their transactions and processes on time.
The governor also urged workers to exhibit good interpersonal relationship in the discharge of their responsibilities to enable the public to have hitch-free transactions.
He said: “Indeed, the delivery of value to citizens is the fundamental objective of any democratically-elected government. In today’s world, however, the delivered value must be delivered per excellence. This is chiefly because citizens have become sophisticated and exposed to the standards of governance in other climes such that their expectations have been conditioned to demand and insist on compliance with global best practices at all levels of governance. Meeting these expectations is the central challenge for governments in the developing world.
“Thankfully in Lagos State, we have a government that has boldly embraced this challenge and is, in fact, executing a reasoned-out plan to transform governance and its processes in such a way that the ever-changing and complex expectations of citizens can be admirably met.”
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