By Isioma Okereke
The Chairman of the Bureau for State Pensions, Sir Edwin E. Ogidi-Gbegbaje has stated that training enhances competence, skills and knowledge across all professions.
The Bureau boss, stated this while playing host to Professional Women Accountants of Nigeria (PROWAN) in his office in Asaba.
According to Ogidi-Gbegbaje, training and retraining of staff has been his core value in all the offices he worked while in the Delta State Civil Service.
He appreciated the role of PROWAN in promoting and projecting the interest of women, as well as the professional body, as he advised them not to negate the role of men as Heads in their endeavours.
The Bureau boss pledged to give the needed support within the limit of resources to all professional training of staff as he recalled the importance of training in meeting up with modern technological advancement.
His words: ‘Training helps a professional to prove his competence in his chosen career, it upgrades membership, enhances knowledge and skills of modern trends. “As a bureau, the training and retraining of our officers is a necessity, as it is inevitable”.
Acknowledging the importance of women professionals, he said ” the more we are able to get female professionals in the society, the better it is for us”.
He appreciated the group for its initiatives in living up to their social responsibility in terms of sensitization programs, physical and social engagement, all geared towards giving back to the society.
Earlier, the leader of the group, Mrs. Tosan Enkpara, who spoke through the Asaba District Coordinator, intimated the Bureau Chairman that they were there to solicit the Bureau’s assistance to empower accountants in the Bureau, through internal and external training on a yearly basis, which would invariably enhance their competence.
According to her, training is a compulsory requirement to retain membership of the Association, as well as the only way to meet up with the new trends in the profession with changes on a yearly basis. Mrs. Enkpara assured the Bureau boss that with proper training, accounts books would be well kept.
To show the importance of the training and to ensure no accountant missed out, according to the group, the proposed training was spread into different months of the year.
She assured the Bureau, that training would not only boost self-esteem and morale of the accountants but would also increase their competency and efficiency.
The meeting ended with PROWAN congratulating Sir Ogidi-Gbegbaje on his well-deserved appointment as Chairman of the State Bureau for Pensions, and prayed for better working relationship with him.
