In its bid to provide an efficient transportation network and motivate staff, the Federal Ministry of Environment has secured and commissioned Electric /CNG buses that can transport its workforce to work.
Minister of Environment Malam Balarabe Abbas Lawal, who commissioned the vehicles at the weekend in Abuja, also encouraged staff to use the opportunity and improve their promptness to duty.
The minister who urged them to take care of the vehicles just like their own cars, also admonished them to be kind and accommodating to civil servants, especially from other neighbouring ministries who would wish to be assisted with transportation to and fro their work place.
Alongside the commissioning of the vehicles, the ministry’s management presented awards and gifts to excelling staff and outstanding civil servants. The awardees received various gift items and words of encouragement from the minister and his management team.
Also recognised were retirees who had made immense contributions to the Ministry over the years. Those retirees who served diligently in various departments of the ministry were presented with gifts and a plaque as a sign of appreciation.
While appreciating the retired awardees, the minister also used the opportunity to encourage those who are performing well to keep up with their good work, adding that hard work pays. Furthermore, he advised staff who are underperforming to see the recognition given to their hardworking colleagues as a call to duty and wake up to their responsibility.
“For our retirees, I thank you for your sacrifice, we appreciate you.
And secondly, today we are going to award the best performing individuals that are presently serving in the ministry. I think it is very important because you need to show that there’s a difference between who’s performing and who’s not performing,” he said.
Earlier, the ministry’s permanent secretary, Mahmud Adam Kambari, said the occasion was to honour the ministry’s hard-working staff, those retirees who have done excellently in the past three years, and, lastly, commission staff buses, which he said were one of the major challenges the ministry had been facing since he was appointed permanent secretary.
