Our Special Guest of Honour,

Head of Service,

Chairman of the occasion, chief Bayo Oyero,

Our Guest Lecturer, Prof J. T Makinde

The Founder MIATF, chief M. I Aboaba,

The VC and members ARHOS & PS

BOT, MIATF

Senior Civil Servants, OSPS

Gentlemen of the Press


It is with great delight that I welcome our special Guest of honour as well as the distinguished scholar who is presenting this Annual lecture.

We are highly excited to welcome our own chief Bayo Oyero as the chairman of this year Annual Lecture.

I like to recall that one of the objectives of the annual lecture is to deliberate on promoting issues that will enhance productivity and efficiency in the Public Service. It is also intended that the Annual Lecture will enable past and present practitioners to rub minds together on issues bordering on our primary assignment of promoting excellence in governance. It is an established fact that a high-quality service will greatly enhance development through the instrumentality of formulation and implementation of appropriate policies and programmes. Hence the MIATF is committed to this Annual lecture.

Before I formally welcome our Guest Speaker and introduce the topic, it’s is my utmost delight to please introduce the Chairman of the ceremony, chief Mustafa Adebayo Oyero to the generality of the audience, particularly the young generation of the civil servants.He had been a close confidant of the Founder of MIATF for over five decades. They are always together. He is a doyen of Administration. In those days of specialization, even within the administrative officer cadre, there was no way you can discuss industrialization in the Western State without mentioning his contributions.

The success story of NIROWI Ondo, Paper and Pulp at Iwopin Ijebu Waterside and the Paper lndustry at Oluyole, Ibadan to mention a few, brings to memory his invaluable contributions.

As a retired Permanent Secretary, he topped his civil service career with appointment as the Executive Secretary(Administration )of the Petroleum Trust Fund.

Personally, I had my first contact with Chief Oyero in October, 1976 in the company of his four friends. He is morally upright, loving and caring. Ever since, I have known him to be a man of impeccable integrity.

He was for years President General.Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes.Ibadan .A proud alumnus of the University of Ibadan. He was a member of Council of the University of Ibadan and now Chairman, Governing Board,Federal College of Agriculture, Akure. You are, indeed, welcome.

Relationships are patterns of behaviour that happen between people or organizations in the ways they relate, interact, communicate with each other.

Relationship dynamics often play out as repeating. The relationship among the various arms of government including relations between political and higher career civil servants influence the pattern of development and statutes.

In fact, the relationship sometimes determines the level or pattern of development. It is more apparent in the various forms of government, be it unitary, federal, confederal etc. So also, the constitutional responsibilities of each tier of government including their functions, collection and sharing of revenue are determined by dynamics of relationship.

The dynamics of relationship determines the contribution of each cadre to the process of policy formulation and implementation.

The 1976 Purge and the 1987 Civil Service Reform (Dotun Phillips) brought fundamental changes to the pattern of the relationship. The Allison Ayida Reform of 1997 tends to recreate the development-oriented relationship. Thus, the primary goal of dynamics of relationships in the public service is ultimately development i.e., enhancement in the socio-economic welfare of the people.

The cordiality in the relationship largely determines the impact of governance.

To our great audience, this is another opportunity for us to contribute our quota to our primary constituent. The value of knowledge cannot be underestimated. May I plead in this address by urging the Head of Service with other relevant agencies to sustain the tradition of training and re-training of civil servants.

On this note, I say you are welcome.