By Abba – Eku Onyeka, Abuja
Former Director – General (DG), Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dr Dakuku Peterside, a leadership coach; a former DG, SON, Dr Joseph Odumodu will facilitate SON’s planned retreat. Others who will join him are SON Management Review Committee Chairman, Barr. Osuagwu Sunny Uwanuakwa; MD, Take Out Media, Elijah Affi; a leading consulting for, Samuelson B. V. Professionals Services, among others.
In a quest to build on the foundation laid by previous Managements, the SON is holding a 4-day Leadership Strategy Retreat in Calabar, Cross Rivers State from tomorrow, February 9 to 12, 2021.The retreat is aimed at repositioning SON for greater effectiveness and efficiency in delivery of its mandate of setting and enforcing standards for goods, processes and systems in Nigeria., a statement from the office of the DG, Mallam Farouk Salim posited that the SON strategy retreat is the first major outing in a series of agenda-setting programmes which are part of measures to set the organisation’s targets for 2021 and beyond, as well as putting her on the path of becoming the foremost standards institution in Africa.
Salim according to the statement is determined to make SON a role model in safeguarding Nigerians from the menace of imported and locally made substandard products by ramping up enforcement of standards nationwide and make Nigeria hostile for producers and distributors of substandard products.
The four-day retreat will deal with issues like goal setting, art and science of execution for regulatory agencies, key performance indicators and stakeholder management, among other issues.