Federal civil service audit underway – Olaopa
The Federal Authorities will rapidly behavior an audit of the Federal Civil Service staff. The audit, which President Bola Tinubu has already permitted, targets to title gaps within the staff strength and ability predicament of the Federal Civil Service with a see to addressing them.
Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, who disclosed this in an interview on the sidelines of a 3-day Technique Retreat on the FCSC’s Strategic plan 2025-2029 in Abuja, acknowledged it is fallacious to claim that Nigeria has a bloated civil provider.
Olaopa acknowledged that what Nigeria has is a pool of workers, the huge majority of whose skills aren't any longer required and are therefore redundant.
He acknowledged that if one benchmarks the federal civil provider staff against that of alternative international locations, one will take into fable that it is definitely rather runt.
“However the exclaim is we catch a huge replace of workers who lack the requisite skills to operate, whereas the abilities that the system desires are scarce,” he acknowledged.
He acknowledged the logical thing to attend out is to retrain and realign these who're readily on the market and redeploy them.
The retreat became once organised to predicament in breeze a chain of strategic processes that would possibly perchance remodel the FCSC precise into a significant human resources management (HRM) expert advisory hub that the Federal Authorities can scheme on.
He eminent that the President himself has permitted a human resources audit of the Federal Civil Service, the essence of which is to attend out a hole prognosis of workers.
He promised that the FCSC became once committed to supporting the renewed hope agenda and the ambitions of the most in trend administration of President Tinubu to make Nigeria a one-trillion-dollar financial system by 2030.
Earlier whereas learning the verbal replace issued at the discontinue of the retreat, Olaopa acknowledged upon assumption of responsibility, the most in trend management of the Federal Civil Service Commission performed a rapid evaluation and undertook a prognosis that published the must urgently reorient the rate on the path of mediocrity to a merit-based completely mostly system devoid of nepotism and all forms of patronage which compromises productiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and cultural excellence.
“We also identified the crucial of modernising the rate as an institution with a critical sector supporting it to follow it its mandate exceptionally whereas serving as a model for the wider public provider,” he acknowledged.
He acknowledged that part of the final consequence of the retreat is that the rate will put together a draft that would possibly perchance be further validated and permitted by the rate’s management, a six-yr, five-yr strategic plan for 2025-2029, as well to introduce a performance-managed sector to make stronger its interior operations.
He published that the retreat is the predominant-level technical stakeholder engagement, which is ready to be adopted by another expanded stakeholder consultations bright companions from outdoors the rate.
