Senior members of Nigerian Institute of Management, NIM have been challenged to speak against and make efforts to reverse the detrimental trend where perfidy in public office seems to be rewarded with higher public office once there is common political affiliation.
Nigeria has been going through various socio-economic and political challenges in the recent time but speaking at NIM forum recently, the Institute’s President, Olukunle Iyanda identified among others, the practice of rewarding perfidy in public office and described the trend as unproductive and undesirable.
According to Iyanda, the nation, in its chequered history may not have faced as many challenges as it does at this time.
“Apart from the insurgency that has refused to go away, there is increasing insecurity and fear among the people to exercise their freedom of movement, there are allegations of corruption in the most sacred temples of the land, of subjugation of national to sectional interest and a seeming loss of faith in Nigerian nationhood.
“Perfidy in public office seems to be rewarded by higher public office once there is common political affiliation or sycophancy. These are practices that are antithesis to the doctrine of professional management”, he told the gathering of managers in Lagos He therefore told his members that they can reverse the trend through the propagation of good management where ever they find themselves.
“We are therefore called upon to demonstrate the highest level of selfishness, probity, objectivity and accountability in our own personal and professional responsibilities so that we can restore faith of all stakeholders in the Nigerian project”
The NIM president used the occasion to confer some elder statesmen with life membership award and others with Fellows of the institute.
Also speaking on the theme, Repositioning the Public service for Public Private Partnership to enhance good governance, Isiaka Bisiriyu, Head of Service, Ogun State Government said the need for continuous renewal and transformation of public service is in line with current global practice for the sustainability and continuous improvement of developmental programmes and projects embarked upon by successive administrations.
