All humans are running a race, no matter the condition of our being. Sadly, only a few know what we are running to acomplish. While some of us are running to achieve our goals, visions, dreams etc, others are chasing shadows. This is why we all cannot be masters and all masters cannot be truly followed, as postulated by Williams Shakespeare in Othello.But this is not about that thespian or his works; this is about the Federal Fire Service of Nigeria, a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Interior and the competency of its comptroller-general, Engineer Anebi Garba. Anebi may not be popular, but those who are conversant with the large amount of positive happenings in the federal fire sector can testify to his great managerial skills, which has led the organization to a great extent, to take a new look in the area of infrastructural development, human development and timely awareness creation on how to curtail fire outbreak in the general society.Engineer Garba is, indeed, transforming the organisation beyond imagination in all ramifications through the support of his hard-working staff and the almighty God. He is deploying his bag full of ideas, skills, wisdom and knowledge to bring to reality his visions and dreams for the upliftment of the fire service.Anebi is a man of determination who leads by example. He showcases this lifestyle by always coming to work early before some of the junior staff and even closed late when most of the staff had already gone home after their normal office hour. This is so strange to a lot of people unlike some organizations where senior officers resume late to work and close early before the approved civil service closing hour of 4pm during working days. Anebi is a hard working comptroller general with a large heart. A detribalize patriotic Nigerian that treat everyone that comes in contact with him equally devoid of parental background, political affiliations, tribes and religions background. He is a professional federal Fire Service officer with a lot of experience in the fire sector and human management.Anebi is a very humble and God-fearing officer. Engineer Anebi Garba since coming on board to pilot the activities of the parastatal, has tremendously made a lot of positive impact that will continue to remain on the minds of the staff and the society in which he is appointed to serve. Few out of his earth shaking achievements since his inception CG are listed as follows:Setting up of policy regulatory unit in all the six areal councils in the FCT and the fire service out stations in F.C.T environ. Also, he used his managerial experience to bring the activities of the Federal Fire Service closer to the citizenry through the establishment of more zonal offices and state offices in addition to the existing zonal and state offices with the aim of ensuring full services delivery to the general populace in conjunction with the state fire service. The new state and zonal offices includes: Benue, Adamawa, Niger and Kaduna.In order for the staff of the organisation to meet up with the modern ways of curtailing fire occurrence, Anebi, in conjunction with the state fire services, facilitated the nomination of 100 personnel each from the 36 states of the federation, including Abuja which were trained on how to control fire service equipment and how to curtail fire outbreak especially during dry season. Refurbishments of all the fire service equipment to meet up with the modern way of handling fire incidence were also given serious attention under his present leadership. The equipment were renovated and redistributed to the six area council in F.C.T and all the fire service out stations in F.C.T and its vicinity. The refurbished equipment were also distributed to all the zonal offices and the recently established states offices.Plans are also in the top gear for the procurement of modern fire service fighting equipment to meet up with the global standard which shall in a short time from now begin to arrive in the country for onward distributions and usage. Public enlightment also took a central stage through press interview, distributions of fliers, hand bills, radio and television programme with road shows.There are also great improvements of all the office equipment at the headquarters and the zonal offices. He also recently through the cooperation of his management staff and the support of the Hon minister for interior, organized Fire Service National conference at Kano, the first of its kind since the establishment of the organisation. The theme of the programme was the Menace of Market Fire in Nigeria.The event facilitated a meeting point for the Fire Service stake holders to deliberate on how to reposition and how to improve on the organization programmes to ensure positive service delivery to the general public.These and many other grand breaking achievements not enumerated here due to space constraints were some of the achievements of Anebi in the last two years of piloting the affairs of the Federal Fire Service. Indeed, Engineer Garba is running a good race as the head of the organization. He is no doubt, had achieved beyond imagination. But, I believe he needs to come out more with good policies and strategies on how to tackle fire outbreak that had caused a lot of damages to several Nigerians, with a particular reference to the Markets in Nigeria. Let him also be a team player and be ready to welcome brilliant ideas from those who are interested in putting their ideas together to ensure greater service delivery in the Federal Fire Service sector. Odeh wrote in from Abuja
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