A legal luminary, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has tasked the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and all public sector entities to ensure adequate funding of their legal departments to compete favourably with their counterparts in the private sector for optimal performance.
He also called on the National Assembly to amend the NDDC Establishment Act, noting that the Act is replete with lacuna and controversies.
Adegboruwa, who advised in his keynote address at a three-day retreat for the NDDC’s Directorate of Legal Services (DLS), in Lagos, said that funding, like paying wages, which are commensurate and competitive with their counterparts in the private sector, will enhance their performances.
He said: “From my experience, when people in the public sector are properly encouraged, funded and remunerated, they perform even better than those in the private sector.”
That’s why I cited the example of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is an agency that is powered by the regular police.
“But because they have been exposed to training, and they have specialised handling of equipment, they have become like special people, even different from their regular colleagues at the police stations and various barracks.”
