FULFILMENT OF PROMISES

…….your legacy is your impact in the lives of others.

Years 2016/217 batches of Bond Certificates presentation ceremony of Lagos Water Corporation retirees has come and gone, but the indelible legacy and the memory still linger in our minds.

Words are not enough to describe the beauty and the lessons of that beautiful Thursday 12th September, 2019 at the Lagos Water Corporation, Headquarters, Ijora, Lagos.

There was a wide and huge jubilation/rejoicing from different angles. This came in form of Prayers, Laughter, Dancing, Jumping, Prostrating, Crying (cry of joy) Group photographs and above all, Singing by the LWC 2016/2017 retirees, families, friends and well wishers with the song, “Baba o baba o baba o, Oluwa da Baba si fun wa, (Father o father o father o, Almighty God preserve father for us).

All these Encomiums and Accolades were coming the way of the Lagos Water Corporation, Managing Director/CEO, Engr. Muminu Adekunle Badmus, not only fulfilling the promise made, but also putting smiles on the faces of retirees and for them to be alive and witness the glorious day.

The retirees were all gathered with beautiful atires at the Water house to collect and enjoy the fruits of their labour, in company of their families, relatives, friends and well wishers to celebrate the big event.

Little did we know that the encomium would be part of the MD/CEO’s rewards in Life for fulfillment of promises, as his legacy has started impacting in the lives of others.

Almighty God has decreed “for fulfilling promises great benefits/rewards in this world and in the Hereafter, in addition to the obvious benefits of creating a righteous and stable society.

“It is absolutely, decisively, and indispensably important to keep a promise, as the real rank of humans is in fact their eternal rank, which is their rank with God, and their rank in the Hereafter”.

Charles F. Stanley once said and I quote, “What you do and say lives on in the hearts and minds of others, to some degree, with a definite result or consequence.”

The payments of the pension to the retirees will definitely transform the lifes of majority of the retirees, the day’s memory will continue to linger in their minds, no doubt.

Let me place you on records, in the year 2015, while resuming into office as the Managing Director/CEO, Lagos Water Corporation, Engr. Muminu Adekunle Badmus has made his intention known that payment of LWC pensioners is part of his priorities. Since then bond certificates presentation to the LWC retirees has been topmost in his agenda, and a continuous exercise, as the number one citizen of the largest water producer in sub Sahara African has been leaving to expectations, taken nearly everyone by surprise.

Another thing is to make a promise, another is to fulfill it, knowing the gravity of breaking an oath.

It is clearly stated in the Holy book that, all promises are regarded as having Allah (God) as their witness and guarantor. In the hadith, he who made a promise and then saw a better thing to do, should do the better thing and make an act of atonement for breaking the promise. It is forbidden to break an oath.

It is on the premises, that the LWC boss has defeated nearly everyone’s imagination/expectation, knowing that it is only Almighty God that is all perfect, all knowing.

Earlier on Wednesday 15th August, 2019, while meeting the retirees at the Alausa Waterworks, MD/CEO said and I quote “I always have your (retirees) interest at heart and by God’s grace I wish to pay all 2017 and part of 2018 before end of the year.

The promise made in August has been fulfilled in September, 2019 by the LWC boss with a stainless record.

Expectations are high for the 2018 retirees bond certificates presentation, as the Head, administration and Human Resources has signalled this to MD’s attention.

Thank God Almighty, the State Government, the LASPEC, the Union bodies (AUPCTER, SSASCGOC), the Management and entire Staff of the Corporation for your support and efforts towards making the day a reality as we look forward to 2018 batch of retirees bond certificates presentation.

Yes! it might be too early for the rewards of keeping promise to come for the MD/CEO, but one thing is certain God Almighty is all Knowing and all fulfilling and shall continue direct our noble course.

There is doubt that Engr. Badmus has made a strong statement, an indelible legacy for others coming behind to follow.

We cannot thank the MD/CEO enough for this great achievement, but we shall continue to pray to Almighty God to preserve, guide, support, bless the MD/CEO with wisdom, good health and sound mind to transform the Corporation to a better place of higher level for us.

God’s willing, we shall all live long to enjoy the fruits of our labour in good and sound health. Nobody will rise up for a minute for me and you when it is time to reap the sweat of our efforts/labour, Amen.