By Muhammad Tanko Shittu
Jos
Industrial Training Funds (ITF) Director-General, Mr. Joseph Ari, has charged the management team and area officers of the institution to justify the confidence repose on them by the federal government.
He assured the staff of his readiness to work with them as a team.
Ari gave the charge while unveiling his new focus to directors, assistant directors and 40 area officers tagged: “ITF reviewed vision: Strategies for mandate actualisation” in Jos.
According to him, “the last two years were the worst times for ITF, and this is from the official point of view.”
Ari said he was back in the ITF to work and put back things to their proper perspectives and also to heal some wounds, adding that the ITF as a federal government organisation had its workers as more of a family, “but was fragmented and disorganised.”
“It is my charge to all of you to justify the confidence reposed on us by the federal government. You are the ones to actualise the mandate,” he said.
He stressed that ITF was involved in the process of all federal government policies and President Buhari’s agenda to make “Nigeria better.”
Ari expressed hope that the quick wins in his mandate actualisation ranges from staff welfare to payments of trainees’ allowances among others would be actualised by the first quarter of next year.
He alluded that the medium term plan would encompass the standardisation of all training facilities as well as its center of excellence among others.
“There must be a paradigm shift in the work ethics of IT.”
