The Head of Nigeria’s Federal Public Service says a system is now in place aimed at attracting properly qualified people into the bureaucracy.
At the same time, Folasade Yemi-Esan (pictured) said the new system was designed to “purge incompetent hands”.
Speaking at a seminar on Public Service reform in Abuja, Dr Yemi-Esan foreshadowed the termination of contracts of those who could not keep up with the digital revolution.
“The Civil Service is no longer a welfare institution where all manners of people are recruited simply as a way to check the unemployment crisis in the country,” Dr Yemi-Esan said.
“The objective of reforming the Public Service is to increase its effectiveness and efficiency so as to promote economic and social development,” she said.
Dr Yemi-Esan was backed by Director General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dasuki Arabi who said that in the post-COVID-19 era, the Public Service needed to support the implementation and adoption of the Federal Government’s e-Government Master-plan.
“This will promote infrastructural development, digitalisation of Government processes and documentation, create online platforms for efficiency and transparency and use the new media to provide information to the citizens,” Mr Arabi said.
Dr Yemi-Esan said that as “a first and critical step post COVID-19”, the Federal Government needed to revisit the existing and numerous Public Service reform strategies and plans in reflecting on desirable administrative reform measures.
Abuja, 1 May 2021
