NAN-H-77
Advice
By Kabir Muhammad
Abuja, Nov. 18, 2016 (NAN) The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has advised members of staff to give in their best to the service of the FCT Administration and by extension their father land.
Bello said this on Friday in Abuja at the valedictory management meeting of the administration to formally send off Alhaji Adamu Ismaila, the Executive Secretary, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA).
Bello was represented by the the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr Babatope Ajaikaiye.
He said that the current FCTA leadership assumed office when so many things needed attention ranging from environmental management to streetlights maintenance, adding that the former ES was always there to guide the process.
“When we came on board, Ismaila was always on hand to show us the pathways, especially as he believes in the spirit of excellence.
“Those Ismaila has left behind should emulate the hard work and steadfastness because Abuja has remained the window in which the world sees Nigeria.’’
The FCT Director of Establishment and Training, Mr. Salihu Mohammed, commended the minister and permanent secretary for the send-off innovation, saying that it had afforded the administration the opportunity to appreciate its own.
Mohammed said Ismaila had left his marks in the service as he rose from Resident Engineer in 1982 to become the Executive Secretary of the FCDA.
He urged staff of the FCT Administration to continue to cooperate with the minister and the permanent secretary in the great task of building “Abuja of our dream”.
Responding, the outgoing executive secretary advised staff to maintain the high standard of infrastructural development synonymous with Abuja.
He pleaded with all those he might have offended, saying that it was not intentional. (NAN)
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Edited by Akin Makanjuola/Nkechi Okoronkwo
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