NIPOST in ICU, urgent reforms needed to revive it – Board chairman

The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) is in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and needs  urgent reforms to revive it, board chairman of the service, Barrister Isaac Kekemeke, has said.  Kekemeke, who spoke at a workshop organised for NIPOST staff in Abuja yesterday, added that it is now time to go the whole hog to reform and […]

The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) is in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and needs  urgent reforms to revive it, board chairman of the service, Barrister Isaac Kekemeke, has said. 

Kekemeke, who spoke at a workshop organised for NIPOST staff in Abuja yesterday, added that it is now time to go the whole hog to reform and make NIPOST fulfill its destiny to compare and compete favourably with multinational postal agencies. 

“The approach may not be palatable at all times but we need to take the tough but necessary decisions to exit the intensive care unit. We are either out of ICU in good health or head for the morgue. NIPOST either functions effectively now as a commercialised state operator or gets privatised, so that myself, the PMG, and a good number of you risk the loss of our jobs,” the chairman said. 

No doubt, he added, “Change is not always easy as many loathe change because of the uncertainty it brings but it is in my place to urge you all to embrace the change we advocate.”