Societal problems: Lagos urges social workers to double efforts
The Commissioner, Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Mr Mobolaji Ogunlende, has called on social workers in the state to double their efforts in keeping societal fabrics together so that problems will be reduced to barest minimum.
The commissioner said this on Wednesday when he visited the Rehabilitation Training Centre and Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Persons With Disabilities located in Ikorodu.
He said, “For the societal problems to be tackled or reduced to the barest minimum, there is need for social workers to complement the efforts being made by the state government by total commitment to their job
“No society can do without social workers because they play an indispensable role in helping to keep the fabrics together.
“It then behoves on everyone of us whether junior or senior staff in the Ministry to double efforts in order to meet the ever increasing demands being made on us by Lagosians.”
In appreciating the job of social workers which he described as “great work”, Ogunlende said, “The State Government can have the best facilities without positively affecting the lives of the citizenry if there are no persons with commitment to use them to deliver the needed services to the citizenry.”
The Permanent Secretary, Mrs Toyin Oke-Osanyintolu said, “As social workers, you have given hope to the children in our centres as many of them were seen in a joyful mood on seeing us. Some of these children were found on the streets without parents.You have given them a sense of belonging through the love and care you showed them.
Oke-Osanyintolu urged the staff at the centres to raise the bar of service delivery, saying governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, “has put rollercoaster on the feet of the Ministry of Youth and Social Development” by broadening its responsibilities.
According to the Permanent Secretary, the Vocational Rehabilitation Training Centre for Persons With Disabilities was established in 1997 with the aim of empowering people living with disability to become productive through acquisition of skill in either tailoring, shoemaking, bead making, catering or any other vocation.
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