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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Odili tells Commssioners to prepare handover notes By John Ighodaro Thursday, July 08, 2004 PORT HARCOURT — GOVERNOR Peter Odili of Rivers State has directed all his commissioners and political appointees in his cabinet to prepare their handover notes and submit them to him at the end of the ongoing retreat organised for top government functionaries by the state Agency for Reorientation, Integrity, Service and Ethics (ARISE). He made this known at the opening ceremony of the retreat which commenced Wednesday at Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt. His words: “At the end of this retreat, every political appointee will do a handover note and submit to us. An assessment will be done and by the end of one week, the verdict will be made public and those who had not done well will be asked to look for something else to do.” He noted that in the past, people had misconstrued government’s patience to mean weakness and vowed that government’s resolve to serve Rivers people cannot be compromised. “Service,” according to the governor ‘is an assignment from God for his people, and no good service will go unrewarded.” He further noted that “we have a moral duty to perform, and if we fail to do so, then we must account to God.” The governor hinted on how some top functionaries of his administration had worked to sabotage the new spirit of honesty, service, integrity, and ethics re-orientation, saying the privilege of being selected out of a popular of about five million people to render service is enough to invoke the fear of God and appreciation in the minds of such persons. Earlier, chairman of ARISE, Prof. Godwin Tasie, organisers of the retreat said the retreat offers critical opportunity for appraisal of the performances of top government officers and departmental heads. His words: “We are in this retreat to tell ourselves the home truth which we want to discuss, and if any such truth is bitter, so be it.” He however, noted that the retreat would help “build the capacity for greater achievement and enable functionaries of government to be better focussed and more result oriented.”   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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