By Akpokona Omafuaire

WARRI—Managing Director/Chief Executive Ofiicer, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Chief Williams Makinde, has said that to improve productivity and efficiency, all ethnic co-operative societies and cleavages have to be collapsed into one mega-co-operative society.

He added that 200 female unemployed graduates would be trained in several skilled areas considering the importance of women in nation building.

Makinde said that his agency was primed for training select journalists in new and developmental media.

The DESOPADEC boss, at the commission’s end of year party, said that his board was aware of the many challenges being faced by his workers, describing the situation as part of the evolution of the organisation.

He said: “DESOPADEC is one indivisible family and we will keep it so. I am aware of the various challenges faced by staff. There are issues of lack of office spaces and operational vehicles, among others. It is due to the evolution of the organisation and its restructuring.

“We shall make specialized training for youths through cooperative society. We shall train 200 unemployed female graduates in various skills.

“Attitude to work has to change for better productivity. All ethnic issues of tribal cleavages in the coming year must end. To this end, all ethnic co-operative societies are to be collapsed  into one mega- DESOPADEC society in 2016. This is in anticipation of unity and improved cooperation to achieve greater productively in the coming year.”