Ibadan – Mr Olufunbi Sode, former Director, National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), South-West Zone, on Saturday urged civil servants in the country to rid the service of corruption.
The former NESREA boss said this in his remark at a retirement party organised in his honour by the staff of NESREA in the zone, in Ibadan.
Sode said there was a need for everyone to ensure that corruption did not grow deep into the fabrics of society so that Nigeria could be better.
“We can kick out corruption, but only if everybody, including leaders of every establishment, have a corruption-free mind,’’ he said.
The former NESREA boss urged all staff members to be men and women of integrity and to see integrity as a way of achieving success.
“If any agency is talking about achievement, the staff working there are the achievement of the agency,’’ he said.
Sode urged all working servants who were due to retire to do so, so that younger civil servants, could take over.
“If I am leaving service and somebody else is taking over, it will be my joy and happiness to see that someone else is filling the space I left behind,’’ he said.
In his goodwill message, Mr Adeleke Ajani, the new NESREA Director, said he and other staff members of the agency would continue the legacy Sode left behind.
Ajani, while wishing his former boss the best in his endeavours, described him as a man of high integrity who was hardworking, principled and disciplined.
“He does not compromise. On his job, nobody can buy him over. He also ensures enforcement is carried out,’’ he said. (NAN)