Cross River State Commissioner for Science, Technology, and Innovation, Dr. Justin Atiang Beshel has charged staff of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department to embrace CRS civil service code of conduct while discharging their responsibilities as staff of the ministry.
Dr. Justin Atiang Beshel made this known on Monday, in an inaugural meeting with the ICT staff at his office, in Calabar.
In his address, Beshel admonished the staff on the necessity to be punctual, diligent, and devoted to work, synergise with various departments and agencies, and to come up with innovations to foster the growth of the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Technology.
He also assured the staff that the government of Senator Prince Bassey Edet Otu is prepared to pay dividends to the people of Cross River State, by ensuring that Cross Riverians benefit from ICT. He added that the staff of the ICT department who come up with feasible projects and innovations will not go home unrewarded.
The Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr. Ignatius Egere in his remarks charged the ICT staff to be up and doing while executing their official duties, assuring them of Dr. Beshel’s readiness to stimulate and reinvigorate the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Technology for the overall development of the state.
The ICT staff trumpeted Dr. Justin Beshel’s initiative of meeting with them, saying that the session has allowed them to express their challenges which include poor funding and neglect by the previous government, and proposed some workable ideas for the department, while assuring the Commissioner of their readiness to attain the current administration’s goals for the state.