BY DAYO JOHNSON
AKURE — GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, yesterday inaugurated  numerous Caring Heart confidence building projects in various parts of the state beginning from the Central Senatorial District estimated at about N2.1billion.

The commissioning of the N2.1billion confidence building projects under his administration’s 3i’s (Initiative, Infrastructure, Institution & Industry) is targeted at the rural and community development using participatory and community-driven approach and anchored by the State’s Ministry of Community Development and Cooperative Services.

Mimiko promised that no part of the state would be left behind, adding that plans were on to ensure that basic facilities that would transform communities and enhance developmet would go round before the end of his tenure.

Earlier, while inaugurating the N50 million e-Audit headquarters complex of the State, Auditor General office in Akure, Mimiko described the project as a milestone in the efforts to emplace good governance through institutionalizing transparency and accountability in the operations of government.

According to him, “the administration recognizes the critical roles that supreme audit play in the attainment of the goals of transparency and accountability in governance hence our avowed commitment to the provision of the enabling environment for such institutions to discharge their duties with utmost convenience.”

“The commitment of this administration to the implementation of Total Quality Management in the state public service is for real. The concept of Total Quality entails that we all embrace quality in the discharge of our services to the people.

“ For public officers to really internalize the tenets of Total quality management, they must be able to see, feel and think quality in the ways they conduct government business” he asserted.

The governor said the recruitment of professionally qualified Auditors to strengthen the human capacity of the office already acclaimed as the first of its kind in the federation, was to bridge the gap created in the last ten years to recruit needed personnel into the critical areas of the public service.

“As a government, despite the challenges of dwindling resources, we will continue to seek for creative ways of meeting the needs of the state workforce for good working environment and provision of necessary working tools to ensure maximum service delivery.

“We have been paying our workers all their legitimate emoluments as at when due and by the grace of God, we will never look back in doing this