In our cosmology, old age is respected, but achievement is revered.
Mrs Obioma Okafor, being the first woman to serve as the Director General, Imo State Consumer Protection Council, has demonstrated high leadership capacity within one year she piloted the affairs of the council.
When competency matches with hardwork, the result is always high productivity and this goes a long way when it is complimented with the available materials and support needed to work with. For many people, this assertion negates their own formed opinion and idiosyncrasy especially when it comes to government appointment as this is why hardwork and efficiency has been long defeated by laissez-fair attitude and personal agrandizement and despite all these, we still have men and women of impeccable character who stand tall in their onus.
The Imo State Consumer Protection Council (CPC) is one of the government institutions that have suffered long period of neglect and abandonment. For the past fifteen years, CPC imo State was seen as a toothless Bulldog, unable to fufill its mandates of ensuring adequate protection of consumer's rights, elimination of hazardous products and unscrupulous business practices.
Today, under the shared prosperity government of Most Dist. Senator Hope Uzodimma, the narratives has change. The strategic application of instruments of power by the ebullient DG has redeemed the council's image as the topnotch government institution poised to set a benchmark for others.
The workaholic DG, Mrs Obioma Okafor, has gone a long way in restoring the lost glory of the council in line with the 3R mantra of the present government of Senator Hope Uzodimma through a well structured surveillance and enforcement operations, improved awareness and enlightenment campaign, routine checks on factories and industries to ensure their products are safe for human consumption, Radio jingles in almost all the radio stations in imo State, preaching against fake and adulterated products, embarking on routine checks to all the supermarkets and restaurants in imo State, to mention but a few. Business men and women are now very careful of what they put out there for sale because of fear of being clamp down by CPC enforcement officers who are ever vigilant.
All these wouldn't have come to play without the sincere support of the shared prosperity government of Gov. Hope Uzodimma whose core mandate is predicted on the 3R mantra initiative and no doubt reflects on the activities of CPC imo State. The present administration in imo has shown unflinching determination towards the uplifting of CPC in the last one year.
The Director General, Hon. Mrs Obioma Okafor who controls both human and material resources at the CPC is indeed a round peg in a round hole. The workaholic DG has proven that leadership is not about the paraphernalia but the quality of services rendered. Mrs Okafor has gone extra mile to rebrand CPC both in structure and operations as seen in the most recent activities of the council in protecting the rights of consumers.
Nwosu Nicholas Tochi
SA on Media to the DG CPC imo State.
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