By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)
The newly established Hydro Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) is to take off with no fewer than 400 workers with 70 percent of the workers from GL 9 and below.
Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Commission, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa, disclosed this at the opening of the 7-days induction course for the newly recruited staff which took place in Minna, Niger state.
Yelwa however told the newly recruited workers from Makurdi, Lokoja, Birnin Kebbi Jos, host Niger and Ilorin headquarters of the states covered by the activities of the Commission that issues of indiscipline will not be treated with levity.
To ensure that HYPPADEC meets the needs and aspirations of the founding fathers and in line with statutory obligations, it is important for the workers to exhibit high sense of responsibility in the day-to-day running of the Commission.
“Senior Staff and Junior Staff Disciplinary Committees have been put in place. We want them to know that they are not in the Commission to play around, they have been recruited for service delivery and they are expected to take their jobs seriously”.
Yelwa told the foundation staff, “We have longed for this Commission for a very long time. Our ancestral homes have been lost to flood related causes, so you must provide succour to our people, many of them our grand fathers and mothers who died for this cause”.
Arrangements for the payments of accommodation and feeding of participants attending the induction course from outside Minna has been made and therefore emphasised the need for seriousness on the part of the workers including 70% of them experiencing civil service work for the first time.
In order for the people in the catchment areas of the Commission not to be caught napping as a result of the NIMET prediction, Yelwa further hinted that this year’s sensitization of riverine communities in the affected states people has already commenced.
Because of the pro-activeness of HYPPADEC, “We have sponsored community announcements in some local dialects to draw attention to the dangers as expressed by NIMET. Last year there was no much havoc because the people were well informed”.
NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Correspondent reports that the new Commission has 5 Directorates including that of; Finance and Administration, Operations, Engineering and Technical Services, Community and Rural Developments, Legal Services and Planning Research and Statistics. NNL.
