Bashorun Askia Ogieh is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC).
In this interview, he talks about the innovations his board introduced in the last one year to meet the development challenges of the mandate areas and the many successes achieved so far.When Delta State Governor appointed you as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of DESOPADEC Board, he gave a very rich citation.
Well, when we came on board, it was very necessary for us to do a bit of rebranding, because, like I said, I have been here before. I know the few areas where errors were made at the Board level. And my own is to ensure that these things are corrected. And people were just taking advantage of the system.
Also, I would say that all I am doing is my own way to improve what has been done and even previously. The foundation was laid then and to add more blocks to it in a more perfect manner; that is what we have done. I don’t know how many budget circles you are going to use to deliver on that project. It is like planning to abandon the project from conception. For me, that is not acceptable.
We are doing a lot of piling which is going on and if we finish it as scheduled, I can promise you in one year maybe next time when we are coming for the second anniversary, the building would be standing and completed. We know it is not always easy, there must have been some challenges here and there, so we would like to know the major challenges your team has experienced and how you overcame them?
And we have issued circulars to them regarding the various degrees of sanctions that await absenteeism. Imagine for ex ample, if you are out of work for about two to three months, I don’t think you can safely say you are a staff of that place because we had people that were taking very undue advantage of the Commission’s seemingly lax system thereby engaging in dual or even more jobs.
And so, the state has to release funds to us for us to operate effectively. There is also the sudden, unexpected and devastating pandemic that happened. This has affected the entire world and brought the world to its knee and we are in the same world and the same country, obviously partaking of the brunt. So, it has affected us greatly.
Each time I call anyone of them, they have always listened. We have received a lot of useful advice and support from a lot of them.
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