The Rivers State Local Government Service Commission, has rated the performances of council workers high in the state.
Chairman of the commission, Chief Azubuike Nmerukini, said this in an interview with The Tide shortly after declaring opened a two day-workshop for some Council staff in Port Harcourt.
Nmerukini, however, attributed the feat to the constant workshops and capacity building programmes being organized by the commission for workers of the 23 local government councils.
Earlier, while declaring the workshop open he said the commission will not relent in equipping the council’s workers with necessary tools and information to do their job.
He, however, charged them to ensure that the various seminars and capacity building programmes are judiciously utilized, stressing that it must reflect in their daily activities in the workshop.
Nmerukini further urged the participants to seek for knowledge, stressing that regular updading of their skills will help to overcome the challenger posed by the current economic problem in the country, and also urged them to take their work seriously.
In his lecture titled, “Public Sector Audit, Practice, Procedure and peculiarities of Local Governments in Rivers State,” Dr Kingsley Gbeke Kalagbor said good auditing will check corruption in the local government system.