NDDC Boss Tasks Agency Workers On ADR To Promote Transparency, Due Process

Managing manager of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has called connected unit of the committee to ever usage alternate quality solution (ADR) mechanisms to beforehand transparency and owed process.

Ogbuku made the telephone connected Friday successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State, portion speaking astatine the ongoing sensitisation programme for NDDC unit connected workplace compliance with transparency and owed process.

The NDDC boss, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Rev Omeya Owoibo, mentioned that alternate quality solution measures assistance radical resoluteness conflicts without going done agelong oregon hostile processes of carrying grudges and conflicts wrong the workplace.

“Over time, this attack helps signifier a workplace civilization wherever fairness, honesty, work are the norm. Employees statesman to spot that issues volition beryllium handled openly and fairly. This reduces gossip, backbiting fear, and facing them with teamwork and trust,” helium said.

Presenting a keynote Llcture connected the theme: “Promoting Transparency and Due Process successful the Workplace: Deploying ADR into Building a Culture of Accountability and Integrity”, the Founder, Centre for Constitutionalism and Demilitarisation (CENCOD), Prof. Sylvester Odion-Akhaine, stated that struggle is imminent successful labour relations due to the fact that of antagonist interests of the workers and employers.

Odion-Akhaine, who is besides a lecturer astatine the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University, mentioned that firm oregon nationalist organisations support a web of relationships that spell beyond workers-employers relationships to clasp work providers entities with whom they participate into contractual agreements.

He said immoderate of the argumentation frameworks connected transparency successful Nigeria see Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), the Public Procurement and Fiscal Responsibility Act (2009), and the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (2011).

Earlier successful his presentation, the Acting Director, Dispute and Conflict Resolution astatine the NDDC, Ogedegbe Godwin, emphasised that the taxable of the league presents interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary problems by combining variables specified arsenic workplace, owed process, transparency, accountability, and integrity, arsenic good arsenic alternate quality resolution.

He said the workplace tin span the worker-employer relationship, reward process, superior realisation, enactment engagement, productivity, and normative issues specified arsenic integrity, transparency and accountability wrong the system, including the mechanisms of struggle resolution, specified arsenic negotiation, conciliation, corporate bargaining, mediation, arbitration and adjudication.