All awardees of last year Public Service Week must continue to be the best, element of positive change and outstanding public servants in Lagos State.

They were encouraged to continue to strive to excel, live as an example in whatever they do and justify the confidence reposed in them and let people have something good and original to say about them.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu stated this at the Launcheon with the outstanding officers, in Ministries Departments and Agencies, Local Government and Local Council Development Areas held in Ikeja.

He also presented keys and documents to ten recipients of the cars which were drawn through raffle draw and another public servant that won five million naira.

The recipients of the cars who emerged through a raffle draw at the grand finale of activities lined up to commemorate the Year 2021 Public Service Day, comprised four junior and six senior officers.

Recipients in the junior category were Basirat Shogbola, Olalere Alaka, Kikelomo Ogunbiaro and Olufunmilayo Alase, while those in the senior category were Olanrewaju Jaji, Olayiwola Odukoya, Adekunle Ipaye, Waheed Alaba, Victoria Adegbite and Olanrewaju Disu.

A Level 16 officer in Public Service Staff Development Centre, Mr. Taofeek Oladiran Ajetunmobi won a N5 million gift from the Governor.

In his welcome address, the Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, said the objective of the best officer awards was in a bid to recognise and reward excellence.

Muri-Okunola, urged the awardees not to rest on their oars but continue to exhibit the high sense of responsibility, diligence, commitment to duty and unalloyed loyalty which are the qualities and values for which they have been recognised.

He said 166 out of 180 nominees were recommended for the Outstanding Officers’ Award, noting that the awardees comprised 101 officers in the senior category and 65 officers in the junior category.

The Head of Service said this year’s Public Service Week featured various activities, which included mass work for fitness, variety show, among others, adding that the objective of the best officer awards was in a bid to recognize and reward excellence.