The Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF), Mr. Danladi Kifasi has urged Civil Servants to focus their energies in providing timely and qualitative service to members of the public.
Mr. Kifasi who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, Dr. Amina Shamakin made this known recently in Kaduna at a training workshop on National Strategy on Public Service Reforms (NSPSR) organized by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) and the European Union (EU) for Directors of Reform Coordination and Service Improvement in Ministries, Departments, Agencies and Parastatals and the beneficiary Agencies of the European Union Support for Federal Governance Reform Programme ( EU- SUFEGOR)
The HOS while calling on Civil Servants to ensure successful implementation of government’s policies and programmes, urged them to create the enabling environment needed for private sector and civil society to thrive and develop.
He further said that the workshop is to clearly delineate the roles of the Reform Coordination Department within the execution of the NSPSR which is a comprehensive long-term agenda of the government designed in line with vision 20:2020 and supposed to launch Nigeria as one of the 20 leading economies by 2020.
Mr. Kifasi frowned at the negative image the Civil Service has come to acquire over the years and called for a change of attitude that will enable them to contribute their own quota to the emergence of a Civil Service that would meet the challenges of globalization.
In his keynote address, the Director General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dr. Joe Abah urged the Government to take a holistic review of the Stephen Oronsanye report and the subsequent Government whitepaper in the proposed merger arrangement of Ministries, Departments, Agencies and Parastatals.
Dr. Abah lauded President Buhari’s directive on the implementation of the Treasury Single Account to curtail big revenue generating agencies from unauthorized spending, adding that it was part of the 10 year NSPSR document developed by BPSR for Public Service Reforms.
In his welcome address, the Director, Reform Coordination, Mr. Yamusa Bin said the objective of the training workshop was to expose the directors of Reform Coordination and Service Improvement to the essential elements of the NSPSR.