Federal civil service not bloated – FCSC Chairman

Jul 2, 2025 - 20:30
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Federal civil service not bloated – FCSC Chairman

The Chairman of the Federal Civil Carrier Price (FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has said it's scandalous to impart that Nigeria has a bloated civil provider.

Prof. Olaopa, who spoke in an interview on the sidelines of a three-day FCSC Method Retreat which ended the day previous to this in Abuja, said what Nigeria has is a pool of employees, majority of whose abilities don't seem like any extra required and are because of the this truth redundant.

He said if one benchmarks the team of the federal civil provider in opposition to numerous worldwide locations, one will study that the federal civil provider team is basically little.

“However the train is we have got an mammoth amount of workers, most of whom lack the requisite abilities to objective, whereas the abilities that the gadget wants are scarce,” he said.

He said the logical thing to attain is to retrain of us that come in and redeploy them.

The retreat used to be organised to space in lunge a chain of strategic processes that will transform the FCSC into a essential human resources management (HRM) educated advisory hub that the Federal Authorities can design on.

He essential that the President himself has permitted a human resources audit of the federal civil provider, the essence of which is to attain a hole diagnosis of workers.

He promised that the FCSC used to be dedicated to supporting the Renewed Hope agenda and the ambitions of the modern administration of President Bola Tinubu to rep Nigeria a a thousand billion dollar economy by 2030.

Earlier, whereas reading the communiqué issued at the break of the retreat, Prof. Olaopa said upon assumption of accountability, the modern leadership of the Federal Civil Carrier Price conducted a rapid overview and undertook a diagnosis that revealed the deserve to urgently reorient the Price from the path of mediocrity to a advantage-based gadget devoid of nepotism and all forms of patronage which compromise productivity, effectivity, effectiveness, and cultural excellence.

“We also identified the crucial of modernising the Price as an establishment with a sturdy sector supporting it to ship on its mandate exceptionally whereas serving as a model for the broader public provider,” he said.

He said piece of the final consequence of the retreat is that the Price will keep together a draft that is in all likelihood extra validated and permitted by the leadership of the Price as a six five-year strategic thought 2025–2029, besides to introduce a efficiency-managed sector to aid its inner operation.

He revealed that the retreat is the major-stage technical stakeholder engagement, that will maybe maybe maybe also be followed with some numerous expanded stakeholders’ consultations piquant companions from outside of the Price.