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SPECIAL INAUGURAL EDITION<br />
He had participated in the conception of the developmental programs that were done between<br />
1998 and 2003 most of which is what is being implemented in the last 20 years.<br />
I don't have any doubt, he will take Lagos state to greater heights no doubt about it. There is so<br />
much to expect; I know what happened to us, he turned around this place, he improved the<br />
personalities here, people were trained, bigger exposures, bigger responsibilities, people were<br />
challenged, people were fulfilled, people were motivated and that is what happens when you<br />
motivate your staff, they will deliver bigger. So Lagos state government staff should be thrilled.<br />
They are going to be motivated, they will be happy doing what they are doing and God willing,<br />
Lagos will be better for it.<br />
We should all join hands with the governor, support him with our prayers, we should also support<br />
him with what is expected of us, in terms of our civic duties and once we do that, the sky is the<br />
limit for Lagos state.<br />
Oluwakemi Lateef - GM, Admin & HR LSDPC<br />
I can describe Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu in many forms because he is many things to a lot of people<br />
but from my own purview which is HR, he is a man that has workers welfare at heart. Right from<br />
his inception here at LSDPC, he took staff welfare as his priority, even when there were<br />
challenges. Initially when he came in, the system wasn't too smooth, there was the challenge of<br />
funding, the challenge of labour issues and many other challenges, but he came in, and probably<br />
due to his vast experience at the private and the public sector, he was able to resolve all the<br />
lingering problems within few months that he was here. In fact, I am also a testimony to one of<br />
his early achievements here at LSDPC. Before he came in as the managing director, the highest<br />
that any staff could get to here was the deputy general manager so he came and he said for him<br />
he doesn't see anything stopping any staff here, a deserving staff from getting to the zenith of<br />
their career; so he changed the existing rule. He was the one that brought in the idea of elevating<br />
staff to the position of general manager. That is how few of us in the system were able to get to<br />
the position of general manager.<br />
Before he came to LSDPC, we had this idea of, training is done only when there is money, but<br />
when he came in, he said if you want to get the best from staff, you need to motivate them. He<br />
took staff motivation as his priority and no matter what constraint he has at that time, he<br />
ensured that every month or at every point in time, staff training and other welfare are taken as<br />
priority and at times, some of us wonder how he is able to achieve these things that he achieved.<br />
The other thing that I also see is, since I got to LSDPC, I dare say I have not seen the<br />
infrastructural regeneration that he undertook and he completed most of them. This office is a<br />
testimony. You need to be here some few years back and see the state of the office but he went<br />
round and he said look, if you want your staff to give you the best, it is not only training them,<br />
you also must give them the best environment to work and that will challenge them to give you<br />
the best. So he undertook that project, he started with Block A, that's where he was when he was<br />
here and when he completed that block A, people thought “oh this is the best LSDPC has ever<br />
seen” but, little did they know that he was just bringing out the bird from his pocket. He took this<br />
one too and he did a complete renovation. At some point, some of us were thinking he was overtrading,<br />
when we looked at the cost implication of what he was doing, but he was able to achieve<br />
all those with the problem of cash flow that was inherent in the system at that time.<br />
Apart from his love for staff welfare, he also came with a genius financial engineering that some<br />
of us do not really understand and we have never seen before he got here.<br />
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