INSPIRED to attain and perform well in leadership positions while not
forgetting their roles on the home front, the Acting Head of Service of
the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita is of the belief that
women should erase the idea of competing with men but rather supporting
and completing the men.
Oyo-Ita who sees her appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari as a
privilege, firmly believes that the President is not at all partial with
women in governance.
She says Nigerian women have unflinching belief in the President’s working mantra that he belongs to nobody, but he belongs to everybody which she argues is quite evident in the Mr President’s appointments.
She further states that the advocacy campaign of President Buhari’s wife, Mrs Aishat Buhari for the inclusion of more women in the government of her husband and hopeful that a constitution guarding and protecting the rights of women is pleasing to women.”
Rights ofwomen
The acting Head of Service posits that “Women are regularly recruited for upper-level positions that are associated with a high risk of failure.” She affirms that President Buhari’ appointment of women in critical Ministries that were hitherto dominated by men, has greatly shown that he is not a partial President.
We are not coming to compete with men, they are not fighting to become a man but they are only a pillar of support to the men in their lives. We are meant to support each other and not to be aggressive and hostile to each other.” “Suffice it to say that the present Nigerian government has given more women opportunities to serve as leaders in various capacities.”
“There are women who blazed the trail in their various professions and continue to excel in their endeavours in areas such as medicine, pharmacy, public administration and other professions.” “Women in leadership positions, have proven to have the responsibility and the potential to influence their society through leadership, particularly when they are enabled.”
“Mr President has selected portfolios for women in his cabinet that are not the usual usual ones; he has picked portfolios that are very influential to the economic development of this country, like finance, industry, trade and investments. These are very important portfolios and he has picked women to head those ministries.”
“When you look at the body of Permanent Secretaries, we have quite a good number of women in that body and they were selected on merit based on the capacity in which they performed and not because of their physical form. And the women have proved that Mr President did not make a mistake in appointing them.”
Positiveimpact
“Throughout the ages and in all countries, women in leadership positions have impacted positively on the society. The history of mankind is replete with such women.” Oyo-Ita’s initiative after she assumed office, EPIC civil servant means Efficient, Productive, Incorruptible and Citizen-centered.
Breaking that down, she says, “Efficient with the little recourses that you have put it in and use the time and resources well, one should be able to see that this is what you have achieved.” She is of the school that a civil servant should move beyond carrying files about in the office.
Hard workingcivil servants
“Civil service should not just be a job where people move files and papers, it should have an impact and in doing this it must be incorruptible you must clear that image that civil servants or public servants only do things on what will have personal benefits to them, that’s a bad impression.”
“This is because there are some very hard working civil servants that do things appropriately and at the right time. And we need to see more of those incorruptibility and citizen centred which is the essence of all we have talked about in the past.”
Her dint of handwork and performance in her previous assignments must have paved way for her, going by her profile, Oyo-Ita Ekanem hails from Adiabo community of Odukpani Local Council of Cross Rivers State, was born in April 1964, educated at the Queens College Yaba, graduated at the University of Lagos in 1984 with B.Sc Accounting and holds a Master’s degree from the Nasarawa State University.
She was Director, Finance and Accounts at the Head of Civil Service of the Federation and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). Before her appointment as the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology in April 2014, Oyo-Ita was Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs.
•Mrs.Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita
She says Nigerian women have unflinching belief in the President’s working mantra that he belongs to nobody, but he belongs to everybody which she argues is quite evident in the Mr President’s appointments.
She further states that the advocacy campaign of President Buhari’s wife, Mrs Aishat Buhari for the inclusion of more women in the government of her husband and hopeful that a constitution guarding and protecting the rights of women is pleasing to women.”
Rights ofwomen
The acting Head of Service posits that “Women are regularly recruited for upper-level positions that are associated with a high risk of failure.” She affirms that President Buhari’ appointment of women in critical Ministries that were hitherto dominated by men, has greatly shown that he is not a partial President.
We are not coming to compete with men, they are not fighting to become a man but they are only a pillar of support to the men in their lives. We are meant to support each other and not to be aggressive and hostile to each other.” “Suffice it to say that the present Nigerian government has given more women opportunities to serve as leaders in various capacities.”
“There are women who blazed the trail in their various professions and continue to excel in their endeavours in areas such as medicine, pharmacy, public administration and other professions.” “Women in leadership positions, have proven to have the responsibility and the potential to influence their society through leadership, particularly when they are enabled.”
“Mr President has selected portfolios for women in his cabinet that are not the usual usual ones; he has picked portfolios that are very influential to the economic development of this country, like finance, industry, trade and investments. These are very important portfolios and he has picked women to head those ministries.”
“When you look at the body of Permanent Secretaries, we have quite a good number of women in that body and they were selected on merit based on the capacity in which they performed and not because of their physical form. And the women have proved that Mr President did not make a mistake in appointing them.”
Positiveimpact
“Throughout the ages and in all countries, women in leadership positions have impacted positively on the society. The history of mankind is replete with such women.” Oyo-Ita’s initiative after she assumed office, EPIC civil servant means Efficient, Productive, Incorruptible and Citizen-centered.
Breaking that down, she says, “Efficient with the little recourses that you have put it in and use the time and resources well, one should be able to see that this is what you have achieved.” She is of the school that a civil servant should move beyond carrying files about in the office.
Hard workingcivil servants
“Civil service should not just be a job where people move files and papers, it should have an impact and in doing this it must be incorruptible you must clear that image that civil servants or public servants only do things on what will have personal benefits to them, that’s a bad impression.”
“This is because there are some very hard working civil servants that do things appropriately and at the right time. And we need to see more of those incorruptibility and citizen centred which is the essence of all we have talked about in the past.”
Her dint of handwork and performance in her previous assignments must have paved way for her, going by her profile, Oyo-Ita Ekanem hails from Adiabo community of Odukpani Local Council of Cross Rivers State, was born in April 1964, educated at the Queens College Yaba, graduated at the University of Lagos in 1984 with B.Sc Accounting and holds a Master’s degree from the Nasarawa State University.
She was Director, Finance and Accounts at the Head of Civil Service of the Federation and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). Before her appointment as the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology in April 2014, Oyo-Ita was Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs.
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