By Ayodele Oni
No fewer than 4,200 workers in Ondo state that are due for promotion are set to receive their letters.
The announcement came as the state government flagged off the year 2024 promotion exercise for civil servants in the state.
Head of Service, Mr Bayo Philip who announced this, stated that Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has approved the promotion of deserving officers with attendant financial benefits.
Philip, who appreciated the government for the gesture, urged the beneficiaries to reciprocate by putting in their best in their service delivery, saying to whom much is giving, much is expected.
He warned that his leadership would be aversed to a situation where officers retiring early in any particular year and are due for promotion would be made to go home without their last promotion.
The Head of Service pointed out that the promotion process for year 2025 would commence and be concluded before the end of the year, such that beneficiaries would begin to enjoy from the beginning of the year and subsequent years.
Philip, who noted that 2024 is an election year in the state, however charged the public servants to insulate themselves from partisan politics and stay clear from any form of election campaigns under any guise.
He enjoined them to sustain the integrity of the service using the newly distilled approach ‘don’t deliver short, don’t deliver late as their guilding principle.
“I must appreciate Mr Governor, Hon Lucky Aiyedatiwa, who said, Head of Service, don’t pursue me with any file, everyone who is due for promotion, go ahead and promote them.
“The position of our governor, Aiyedatiwa is that a labourer is worthy of his wage even before his sweat will dry and an officer is worthy of his promotion as and when due.
“In Ondo State, no deserving officer has been left unpromoted and this has to be so with the goodwill of the government of Ondo State
“Therefore I want to admonish you. In your respective desk, you must not deliver short and you must not deliver late. Whatever you are to do must to be short of quality and must not be done late. Do your job as a patriotic civil servant that you are.
“I must also tell you. This is an election year. Do your job. You are civil servants and have nothing to do with partisan politics. Engage your mind more than you engage your mouth.”
